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Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean
Essays in Honor of Jodi Magness
Series: - Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume: 208
This volume celebrates Jodi Magnessâs 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.
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 RomanâByzantine 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.
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.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
List of Ancient Sources
Pushing Sacred Boundaries: Celebrating the Career and Contributions of Jodi Magness
âMatthew J. Grey, Tine Rassalle and Dennis Mizzi
Publications by Jodi Magnessâlix
1 Where Did the Second Temple Period Low-Level Aqueduct Enter the Herodian Temple Mount? A View from the Western Wall Plaza
âShlomit Weksler-Bdolah
2 Textual and Material Lazarus in Dialogue: Reading John 11:1â44 (53) from Its Intra-textual and Extra-Textual Worlds
âJürgen K. Zangenberg
3 âWhere May I Eat the Passover with My Disciples?â: Reassessing the Urban Setting, Furnished Room, and Dining Practices of Jesusâs Last Supper
âMatthew J. Grey
4 Stamping Out the Embers: Roman âMopping-Upâ Operations at the End of the First Jewish Revolt
âGwyn Davies
5 Athletic Competitions as Markers of Religious Identity in Caesarea Insights from Origenâs Newly Discovered Homilies, the Second Sophistic, and Rabbinic Literature
âMaren R. Niehoff
6 Was There a Constantinian Edict Prohibiting Jews from Entering Jerusalem? Notes on Fact and Fiction
âOded Irshai
7 Unitary Coaxial and Arterial Agricultural Field Systems in the Southern Levant: Evidence of Rural Land Divisions of Late Roman Date
âShimon Gibson and Rafael Y. Lewis
8 Settlement Patterns and Economy in the Negev and Southern Palestine in the SixthâEighth Centuries CE: A Reevaluation
âGideon Avni
9 The Effects of Hasmonaean Policy on the Qumran Community: History, Theology, and Archaeology
âKenneth Atkinson
10 Qumran-Related History: Contemporaries Jannaeus, Absalom, and Judah the Essene
âStephen Goranson
11 Economic Activity, Trade, and Manufacture at Qumran, with a Special Look at the Inscriptions and Documentary Texts
âSidnie White Crawford
12 The Burial of Sealed Jars in the Qumran Cemetery: Disposal of Consecrated Property?
âDennis Mizzi
13 Timothy I of Seleucia and the Story behind the Disappearance of the Scrolls from Qumranâs Cave XII/53
âOren Gutfeld
14 Purity as Separation: Comparing the Dead Sea Scrolls, Rabbinic Literature, and the New Testament
âLawrence H. Schiffman
15 Metaphors of Sin in the Qumran Texts: A Working Typology, and Two Examples
âJoseph Lam
16 Resurrection, Interred Bodies, and a Northern Paradise
âJames C. VanderKam
17 Proximity to Purity: A Spatial Analysis of Late Second Temple Synagogues and Miqwaâʾot
âBrian A. Coussens
18 Gender, Time, and Space in Early Synagogue Complexes: Reflections on the AndrÅn and the GunaikÅnitis in Texts and Archaeology
âJoan E. Taylor
19 A Roman Period Synagogue at Shiḥin
âMordechai Aviam and James Riley Strange
20 Synagogues in Palaestina Secunda in the FifthâSeventh Centuries CE: How Many Have Been Found and How Many Are Still Missing?
âChaim Ben-David
21 Jerusalem in Galilee: Urban Architecture and Communal Belonging in a Mosaic from a Rural Synagogue
âKaren Britt and RaÊ¿anan Boustan
22 Two Phases of the Polychrome Plaster of the Ḥuqoq Synagogue
âShana OâConnell
Indexes
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
List of Ancient Sources
Pushing Sacred Boundaries: Celebrating the Career and Contributions of Jodi Magness
âMatthew J. Grey, Tine Rassalle and Dennis Mizzi
Publications by Jodi Magnessâlix
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
âShlomit Weksler-Bdolah
2 Textual and Material Lazarus in Dialogue: Reading John 11:1â44 (53) from Its Intra-textual and Extra-Textual Worlds
âJürgen K. Zangenberg
3 âWhere May I Eat the Passover with My Disciples?â: Reassessing the Urban Setting, Furnished Room, and Dining Practices of Jesusâs Last Supper
âMatthew J. Grey
4 Stamping Out the Embers: Roman âMopping-Upâ Operations at the End of the First Jewish Revolt
âGwyn Davies
5 Athletic Competitions as Markers of Religious Identity in Caesarea Insights from Origenâs Newly Discovered Homilies, the Second Sophistic, and Rabbinic Literature
âMaren R. Niehoff
6 Was There a Constantinian Edict Prohibiting Jews from Entering Jerusalem? Notes on Fact and Fiction
âOded Irshai
7 Unitary Coaxial and Arterial Agricultural Field Systems in the Southern Levant: Evidence of Rural Land Divisions of Late Roman Date
âShimon Gibson and Rafael Y. Lewis
8 Settlement Patterns and Economy in the Negev and Southern Palestine in the SixthâEighth Centuries CE: A Reevaluation
âGideon Avni
Part 2: Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
9 The Effects of Hasmonaean Policy on the Qumran Community: History, Theology, and Archaeology
âKenneth Atkinson
10 Qumran-Related History: Contemporaries Jannaeus, Absalom, and Judah the Essene
âStephen Goranson
11 Economic Activity, Trade, and Manufacture at Qumran, with a Special Look at the Inscriptions and Documentary Texts
âSidnie White Crawford
12 The Burial of Sealed Jars in the Qumran Cemetery: Disposal of Consecrated Property?
âDennis Mizzi
13 Timothy I of Seleucia and the Story behind the Disappearance of the Scrolls from Qumranâs Cave XII/53
âOren Gutfeld
14 Purity as Separation: Comparing the Dead Sea Scrolls, Rabbinic Literature, and the New Testament
âLawrence H. Schiffman
15 Metaphors of Sin in the Qumran Texts: A Working Typology, and Two Examples
âJoseph Lam
16 Resurrection, Interred Bodies, and a Northern Paradise
âJames C. VanderKam
Part 3: The Development of Ancient Synagogues
17 Proximity to Purity: A Spatial Analysis of Late Second Temple Synagogues and Miqwaâʾot
âBrian A. Coussens
18 Gender, Time, and Space in Early Synagogue Complexes: Reflections on the AndrÅn and the GunaikÅnitis in Texts and Archaeology
âJoan E. Taylor
19 A Roman Period Synagogue at Shiḥin
âMordechai Aviam and James Riley Strange
20 Synagogues in Palaestina Secunda in the FifthâSeventh Centuries CE: How Many Have Been Found and How Many Are Still Missing?
âChaim Ben-David
21 Jerusalem in Galilee: Urban Architecture and Communal Belonging in a Mosaic from a Rural Synagogue
âKaren Britt and RaÊ¿anan Boustan
22 Two Phases of the Polychrome Plaster of the Ḥuqoq Synagogue
âShana OâConnell
Indexes
The volume would be of interest or relevance to academic libraries, institutions, students, and specialists in the fields of ancient Judaism, early Christianity, Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient synagogues, and the archaeology of Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Palestine in general.
