Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean: Essays in Honor of Jodi Magness

Author:   Dennis Mizzi ,  Matthew Grey ,  Tine Rassalle
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   208
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9789004537729


Pages:   678
Publication Date:   24 May 2023
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Author:   Dennis Mizzi ,  Matthew Grey ,  Tine Rassalle
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   208
Weight:   0.131kg
ISBN:  

9789004537729


ISBN 10:   9004537724
Pages:   678
Publication Date:   24 May 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Contents List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations List of Ancient Sources Pushing Sacred Boundaries: Celebrating the Career and Contributions of Jodi Magness  Matthew J. Grey, Tine Rassalle and Dennis Mizzi Publications by Jodi Magness lix Part 1: History, Archaeology, and Society in Roman through Early Islamic Palestine 1 Where Did the Second Temple Period Low-Level Aqueduct Enter the Herodian Temple Mount? A View from the Western Wall Plaza  Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah 2 Textual and Material Lazarus in Dialogue: Reading John 11:1–44 (53) from Its Intra-textual and Extra-Textual Worlds  Jürgen K. Zangenberg 3 “Where May I Eat the Passover with My Disciples?”: Reassessing the Urban Setting, Furnished Room, and Dining Practices of Jesus’s Last Supper  Matthew J. Grey 4 Stamping Out the Embers: Roman “Mopping-Up” Operations at the End of the First Jewish Revolt  Gwyn Davies 5 Athletic Competitions as Markers of Religious Identity in Caesarea Insights from Origen’s Newly Discovered Homilies, the Second Sophistic, and Rabbinic Literature  Maren R. Niehoff 6 Was There a Constantinian Edict Prohibiting Jews from Entering Jerusalem? Notes on Fact and Fiction  Oded Irshai 7 Unitary Coaxial and Arterial Agricultural Field Systems in the Southern Levant: Evidence of Rural Land Divisions of Late Roman Date  Shimon Gibson and Rafael Y. Lewis 8 Settlement Patterns and Economy in the Negev and Southern Palestine in the Sixth–Eighth Centuries CE: A Reevaluation  Gideon Avni Part 2: Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls 9 The Effects of Hasmonaean Policy on the Qumran Community: History, Theology, and Archaeology  Kenneth Atkinson 10 Qumran-Related History: Contemporaries Jannaeus, Absalom, and Judah the Essene  Stephen Goranson 11 Economic Activity, Trade, and Manufacture at Qumran, with a Special Look at the Inscriptions and Documentary Texts  Sidnie White Crawford 12 The Burial of Sealed Jars in the Qumran Cemetery: Disposal of Consecrated Property?  Dennis Mizzi 13 Timothy I of Seleucia and the Story behind the Disappearance of the Scrolls from Qumran’s Cave XII/53  Oren Gutfeld 14 Purity as Separation: Comparing the Dead Sea Scrolls, Rabbinic Literature, and the New Testament  Lawrence H. Schiffman 15 Metaphors of Sin in the Qumran Texts: A Working Typology, and Two Examples  Joseph Lam 16 Resurrection, Interred Bodies, and a Northern Paradise  James C. VanderKam Part 3: The Development of Ancient Synagogues 17 Proximity to Purity: A Spatial Analysis of Late Second Temple Synagogues and Miqwa‌ʾot  Brian A. Coussens 18 Gender, Time, and Space in Early Synagogue Complexes: Reflections on the Andrōn and the Gunaikōnitis in Texts and Archaeology  Joan E. Taylor 19 A Roman Period Synagogue at Shiḥin  Mordechai Aviam and James Riley Strange 20 Synagogues in Palaestina Secunda in the Fifth–Seventh Centuries CE: How Many Have Been Found and How Many Are Still Missing?  Chaim Ben-David 21 Jerusalem in Galilee: Urban Architecture and Communal Belonging in a Mosaic from a Rural Synagogue  Karen Britt and Raʿanan Boustan 22 Two Phases of the Polychrome Plaster of the Ḥuqoq Synagogue  Shana O’Connell Indexes

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Dennis Mizzi, DPhil (2009), University of Oxford, is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew and Ancient Judaism at the University of Malta. He is a trained archaeologist, with a focus on the material culture of Judaism in the Roman–Byzantine periods, and has published widely on the archaeology of Qumran. Tine Rassalle, PhD (2021), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is Curator at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a trained archaeologist, with a focus on the material culture of ancient Judaism and early Christianity in the ancient Near East. Matthew J. Grey, PhD (2011), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a Professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on the history and archaeology of Roman Palestine, with a particular interest in ancient synagogues, the material culture of daily life, and the emergence of the Jesus movement within its Jewish context.

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