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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsContents 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
