Benjamin IsaacBenjamin Isaac is Lessing Professor of Ancient History Emeritus in the Department of Classics at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Limits of Empire: the Roman Army in the East (1990) and The Origins of Racism in Classical Antiquity (2004).He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of the American Philosophical Society, as well as being an Israel Prize Laureate. Read More Read Less