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In January 2011, the David and Jemima Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center for Jewish History held its second international conference at Bar-Ilan University, dedicated to the memory of Professor Hanan Eshel, the founding academic director of the center who passed away on April 8th, 2010. This collection of articles, traces, when taken together, daily life in the land of Israel from the First Temple Period through the time of the Talmud, as seen in the various types of inscriptions from those periods that have been discovered and published. Schiffman's summary of Hanan's work serves as an introduction to the book. Ahituv discusses the language and religious outlook of the Kuntilet Ajrud inscriptions. Mazar and Ahituv survey the quite large corpus of short inscriptions found in Mazar's excavation of Tel Reov, south of Beth-Shean. Maeir and Eshel deal with four very short more-or-less contemporary inscriptions found at Tell es-Safi, identified as the major Philistine city of Gath. Demsky deals with the theoretical aspects of literacy in ancient Israel. Grabbe discusses the functions of the scribe during the Second Temple Period. Zissu, Langford, Ecker and Eshel report on both an Aramaic-language graffito and a Latin one, inscribed on the wall of a first and 2nd century CE oil press from of the Judean Shephelah. Rappaport's survey of Jewish coins from the Persian Period through the Bar-Kokhba Revolt, focusing on the Hasmonean coins. Amit describes a group of bread stamps and oil seals, in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin, found in different parts of the country. Klein and Mamalya describe two Byzantine Period Nabatean Christian burial sites and their epitaphs.

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Many will wish to take advantage of the learning here collected. -- Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus

"""Many will wish to take advantage of the learning here collected."" -- Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus ""This book is not only a necessity for archaeologists interested in the land of Israel but highly recommended for everyone with an interest in the religion and daily life of the people who inhabited the Holy Land from 1100 BCE to the Byzantine Period. I found each and every chapter to be interesting and instructive from beginning to end and consequently one of the most enjoyable and informative books I have read during the past year."" --Philippus J. Botha, Review of Biblical Literature, 3.9.16"

Many will wish to take advantage of the learning here collected. -- Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus This book is not only a necessity for archaeologists interested in the land of Israel but highly recommended for everyone with an interest in the religion and daily life of the people who inhabited the Holy Land from 1100 BCE to the Byzantine Period. I found each and every chapter to be interesting and instructive from beginning to end and consequently one of the most enjoyable and informative books I have read during the past year. --Philippus J. Botha, Review of Biblical Literature, 3.9.16

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Professor Esther Eshel, Bible Department, is Head of the Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center for Jewish History at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. Dr. Yigal Levin is Faculty Member of the Department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.

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