Eshel / Levin “See, I will bring a scroll recounting what befell me” (Ps 40:8)

Epigraphy and Daily Life from the Bible to the Talmud
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-647-55062-6
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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E-Book, Englisch, 245 Seiten

Reihe: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements

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 lifein 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. A?ituv discusses the language and religious outlook of the Kuntilet ‘Ajrud inscriptions. Mazar and A?ituv survey the quite large corpus of short inscriptions found in Mazar’s excavation of Tel Re?ov, 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 Khirbet ‘Arâk Hâla in 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eshel, Esther

Levin, Yigal

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schiffman, Lawrence H.

Ahituv, Shmuel

Mazar, Amihai

Maeir, Aren

Demsky, Aaron

Grabbe, Lester L.

Zissu, Boaz

Rappaport, Uriel

Schiffman, Marlene

Langford, Boaz

Ecker, Avner

Amit, David

Klein, Eitan

Mamalya, Haim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Title Page;4
3;Copyright;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Body;8
6;Preface;8
7;Marlene Schiffman and Lawrence H. Schiffman: The Contribution of Hanan Eshel to the Study of the Judean Desert Documents;12
8;Shmuel A.ituv: Notes on the Kuntillet ‘Ajrud Inscriptions;30
8.1;I. Introduction;30
8.2;II. Palaeography, Orthography, and Linguistics;31
8.3;III. Contribution of the Inscriptions to the Study of Israelite Religion;33
8.3.1;The 'asherah;34
8.3.2;Syncretism in Kuntillet .Ajrud?;37
8.3.3;Literacy;37
8.4;Conclusions;38
8.5;Bibliography;38
9;Shmuel A.ituv and Amihai Mazar: The Inscriptions from Tel Re.ov and their Contribution to the Study of Script and Writing during Iron Age IIA;40
9.1;Corpus of Inscriptions;41
9.2;Chronology of the Tel Re.ov Inscriptions;52
9.2.1;Notes to Table 1:;53
9.3;Additional Inscriptions from the Tenth and Ninth Centuries BCE;54
9.4;Tenth-Century BCE Inscriptions;55
9.5;Ninth-Century BCE Inscriptions;58
9.6;Discussion;60
9.7;Language;61
9.8;Chronology and Paleographic Development;62
9.9;Literacy;64
9.10;History and Epigraphy;65
9.11;Bibliography;65
10;Aren M. Maeir and Esther Eshel: Four Short Alphabetic Inscriptions from Late Iron Age IIa Tell e.-.afi/Gath and their Implications for the Development of Literacy in Iron Age Philistia and Environs;70
10.1;Introduction;70
10.2;Archaeological Background;73
10.3;The Inscriptions and Their Context;76
10.4;The Inscription;78
10.4.1;Inscription 1 (Fig. 5);78
10.4.1.1;Script;78
10.4.1.2;Interpretation;78
10.4.2;Inscription 2 (Fig. 6);82
10.4.2.1;Script;83
10.4.2.2;Interpretation;83
10.4.3;Inscription 3 (Fig. 7);86
10.4.4;Inscription 4 (Fig.7);87
10.4.4.1;Script;87
10.4.4.2;Interpretation;88
10.4.5;Discussion;88
11;Aaron Demsky: Researching Literacy in Ancient Israel – New Approaches and Recent Developments;90
11.1;Defining minimal literacy;93
11.2;Orality and Literacy;95
11.3;Three Early Alphabetic Inscriptions;98
11.4;Bibliography;102
12;Lester L. Grabbe: Scribes, Writing, and Epigraphy in the Second Temple Period;106
12.1;(1) Information on Jewish Scribes and Scribalism: Biblical and Second Temple Writings;106
12.2;(2) Comparative Models: a Personal Secretary and a Village Scribe;110
12.2.1;Zenon;111
12.2.2;A Scribe of Ptolemaic Egypt;111
12.3;(3) Scribes and Torah;115
12.3.1;Ezra the Scribe;115
12.3.2;Ben Sira, the Model Scribe;116
12.3.3;Other Possible References in Jewish Literature;118
12.3.4;“Scribes” in the Gospels;118
12.3.5;Summary and Conclusions;119
12.3.6;Bibliography;121
13;Boaz Zissu, Boaz Langford, Avner Ecker and Esther Eshel: Aramaic and Latin Graffiti in an Underground Complex at Khirbet .Arâk Hâla – North of Bet Guvrin;124
13.1;Introduction;124
13.2;The Large Olive Press Complex (See plan and sections, Fig. 1 and photos 3–6.);126
13.2.1;Description of the olive press;130
13.3;Dimensions of chamber M;130
13.4;The graffiti and the inscriptions;131
13.5;“Maresha-Type” Olive Presses;131
13.5.1;The Aramaic Inscription (figs. 15, 16);133
13.5.2;Reading;133
13.5.3;Translation;133
13.5.4;The Script;133
13.6;Commentary;134
13.6.1;Line 1;134
13.7;Discussion;136
13.7.1;The Latin Inscription (figs. 18, 19);137
13.7.2;Translation;137
13.8;Commentary;138
13.9;Summary and Discussion;139
13.10;Bibliography;141
14;Uriel Rappaport: The Inscriptions on the Yehud and the Hasmonean Coins: Historical Perspectives;144
14.1;Bibliography;157
15;David Amit: Jewish Bread Stamps and Wine and Oil Seals from the Late Second Temple, Mishnaic, and Talmudic Periods;160
15.1;Bread Stamps and a Sabbatical-Year Stamp (Fig. 1);161
15.2;A Sabbatical-Year Stamp from Castra;162
15.3;Another Sabbatical-Year Stamp (?) (Fig. 2);164
15.4;Additional Bread Stamps from the Second Temple Period;165
15.5;Stamps from the Late Roman and Byzantine Periods;167
15.6;Wine and Oil Seals;167
15.7;Seals for Wine and Vinegar;169
15.8;The Eleazar Seal;170
15.9;The Grapeskin Wine Seal;170
15.10;Another Vinegar Seal (?);171
15.11;An Oil Seal from Alonei Abba (Fig. 5);172
15.12;Summary;173
15.13;Bibliography;174
16;Eitan Klein and Haim Mamalya: Two Dated Christian Burial Inscriptions From The Negev Desert;176
16.1;Paleographical observations;178
16.2;The Sobata (Shivta) Inscription;179
16.2.1;Conclusions;181
16.2.2;Bibliography;181
16.2.3;Translation;179
16.2.4;Lines 1–2;180
16.2.5;Line 3;180
16.2.6;Lines 3–4;180
16.2.7;Lines 4–6;180
16.2.7.1;Paleographical observations;181
16.3;Preface;176
16.4;The Nessana Inscription;177
16.4.1;Translation;177
16.4.2;Commentary;178
16.5;Line 1;178
16.6;Line 2;178
16.7;Lines 3;178
17;Figures;184
17.1;Shmuel A.ituv: Notes on the Kuntillet ‘Ajrud inscriptions;186
17.2;Shmuel A.ituv and Amihai Mazar: The Inscriptions from Tel Re.ov and their Contribution to the Study of Script and Writing during Iron Age IIA;190
17.3;Aren M. Maeir and Esther Eshel: Four Short Alphabetic Inscriptions from Late Iron Age IIA Tell e.-.afi/Gath and their Implications for the Development of Literacy in Iron Age Philistia and Environs;206
17.4;Aaron Demsky: Researching Literacy in Ancient Israel – New Approaches and Recent Developments;212
17.5;Boaz Zissu, Boaz Langford, Avner Ecker and Esther Eshel: Aramaic and Latin Graffiti in an Underground Complex at Khirbet .Arâk Hâla – North of Bet Guvrin;216
17.6;David Amit: Jewish Bread Stamps and Wine and Oil Seals from the Late Second Temple, Mishnaic, and Talmudic Periods;228
17.7;Eitan Klein and Haim Mamalya: Two dated Christian Burial Inscriptions From the Negev Desert;232
18;Index of Names;236
19;Index of Sources;242
20;Back Cover;247

Über Autor(innen)

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

Levin, Yigal
Dr. Yigal Levin is Faculty Member of the Department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.