Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean

Essays in Honor of Jodi Magness
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53772-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 208, 678 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1226 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

This volume celebrates Jodi Magness’s long and illustrious career as a scholar of archaeology, early Judaism, and the ancient Mediterranean world. It brings together a series of studies on history, archaeology, and society in Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Palestine, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient synagogues, written by her colleagues, students, and friends. The collected essays reflect the extraordinary range of historical and archaeological issues which Magness has elucidated through her outstanding work, as well as make significant contributions to their respective fields. Some articles publish archaeological data for the first time, others re-evaluate traditional assumptions within new methodological or theoretical frameworks, and others proffer innovative interpretations of old data.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mizzi, Dennis

Grey, Matthew

Rassalle, Tine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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<

Über Autor(innen)

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.