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Studia Judaica
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Table of Contents
Mishnah Baba Metsia 7:7 and the Relationship of Mishnaic Hebrew to Northern Biblical Hebrew
1 Linguistic Comparisons: Mishnaic and Biblical Hebrew
2 Archeological Evidence: Israelite Settlement in Iron Age Upper Galilee
3 Archeological Evidence: Israelite Settlement in Iron Age Lower Galilee
4 Archeological Evidence: Settlement in the Galilee in the Persian Period and Later Periods
5 Origins of Galilean Jews in the Rabbinic Period and the Question of Mishnaic Hebrew
Mishnah Baba Batra 8:5 – The Transformation of the Firstborn Son from Family Leader to Family Member
1 Introduction
2 The Mishnah
3 Household Structure and the Firstborn in Biblical Israel verses Tannaitic Palestine
4 Conclusions
Mishnah Avodah Zarah 4:5 – The Faces of Effacement: Between Textual and Artistic Evidence
1 The Annulment of Idolatry and the Effacement of Images during the First Centuries CE: Between the Rabbinic Sources and Archaeological Findings
2 The Iconoclastic Phenomenon in Jewish Art during Late Antiquity
3 Conclusion
Tosefta Ma‘aser Sheni 1:4 – The Rabbis and Roman Civic Coinage in Late Antique Palestine
1 Unique Characteristics of Civic Coinage in the Roman Empire and Roman Palestine
2 Coin Minting in Talmudic Sources: Tevi‘ah
3 Conclusion
Tosefta Shabbat 1:14 – “Come and See the Extent to Which Purity Had Spread” An Archaeological Perspective on the Historical Background to a Late Tannaitic Passage
1 The Toseftan Passage
2 Ritual Baths (Miqva’ot)
3 Chalkstone Vessels
4 Historical Conclusions
An Illustrated Midrash of Mekilta deR. Ishmael, Vayeḥi Beshalaḥ, 1 - Rabbis and the Jewish Community Revisited
1 The Khirbet Hamam Synagogue
2 The Maritime Scene
3 The Midrash
4 Illustrated Midrashim
5 Conclusions
Jerusalem Talmud Megillah 1 (71b-72a) - “Of the Making of Books”: Rabbinic Scribal Arts in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
1 Writing Material
2 Ink
3 Dry Lines
4 Patches for Repair
5 Sewing
6 Spacing
7 Upper and Lower Margins
8 Space between Books
9 Number of Columns in a Sheet
10 Writing Surface
11 Wooden Rollers
12 Conclusions
Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 2,6 (20c) - The Demise of King Solomon and Roman Imperial Propaganda in Late Antiquity
1 King Solomon’s Two Bodies
2 A Tale of the Emperor’s Demise
Genesis Rabbah 1, 1 – Mosaic Torah as the Blueprint of the Universe - Insights from the Roman World
1 Genesis Rabbah 1:1
2 Textual Criticism
3 Philology
4 Comparative Religion/Philosophy
5 Literary Evidence on Building Planning and On Mosaic Preparation
6 Archeological Evidence on Mosaic Preparation
7 Conclusion
Genesis Rabbah 98, 17 - “And Why Is It Called Gennosar?” Recent Discoveries at Magdala and Jewish Life on the Plain of Gennosar in the Early Roman Period
1 Who is the Ruler of Gennesar?
2 Magdala-Tarichaea
3 A Menorah at Magdala
Leviticus Rabbah 16, 1 - “Odysseus and the Sirens” in the Beit Leontis Mosaic from Beit She’an
Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 51b - Coloring the Temple: Polychromy and the Jerusalem Temple in Late Antiquity
Babylonian Talmud, Avodah Zarah 16a - Jews and Pagan Cults in Third-Century Sepphoris
1 A Strange Baraita
2 Paganism in Sepphoris
3 The Qatsion Inscription
4 The “House of Rabbi”
5 Aristocracies and Pagan Sacrifices in Greco-Roman Cities
6 The House of Rabbi and Pagan Sacrifice
The Rehov Inscriptions and Rabbinic Literature – Matters of Language
1 Introduction
2 Early Rabbinic Texts Practice Internal Jewish Bilingualism
3 Documentary and Inscriptional Multilingualism
4 Linguistic Code-Switching in the Rehov Synagogue Inscriptions
5 Conclusion
“This Is the Beit Midrash of Rabbi Eliezerha-Qappar” (Dabbura Inscription) – Were Epigraphical Rabbis Real Sages, or Nothing More Than Donors and Honored Deceased?
The Piyyutim le-Hatan of Qallir and Amittai – Jewish Marriage Customs in Early Byzantium
1 Ritual Items: A Range of Possibilities
2 Ritual Images: Concrete and Textual
3 Beyond Artifacts: Ritual in Practice
Afterwords
The Use of Archaeology in Understanding Rabbinic Materials: An Archaeological Perspective
1 Conclusions
The Use of Archaeology in Understanding Rabbinic Materials: A Talmudic Perspective
1 Part I
2 Part II
3 Conclusion
Index
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