"Go out and study the land" (Judges 18:2) archaeological, historical, and textual studies in honor of Hanan Eshel / edited by Aren M. Maeir, Jodi Magness, and Lawrence H. Schiffman.

Other author/creatorMaeir, Aren M.
Other author/creatorMagness, Jodi.
Other author/creatorSchiffman, Lawrence H.
Other author/creatorEshel, Ḥanan.
SeriesSupplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 148
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 148. ^A689786
Contents Alexander Jannaeus -- priest and king / Dan B. Barag -- Herod's eagle / Albert I. Baumgarten -- The classification of 4Q505 : daily or festival prayers? / Esther G. Chazon -- The Artaxerxes correspondence of Ezra 4, Nehimiah's Wall and Persian provincial administration / Lisbeth S. Fried -- Protection from birds in the Book of Jubilees / Betsy Halpern-Amaru -- Ancient material in Pirqe de-Rabbi Eli'ezer : Basilides, Qumran, the Book of Jubilees / Menahem Kister -- The covenant with the Levites (Jer 33:21) in the proto-masoretic text of Jeremiah in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Armin Lange -- Disposing of the dead : an illustration of the intersection of archaeology and text / Jodi Magness -- Josephus and early Halakhah : the exclusion of impure persons from holy precincts / Vered Noam -- An elusive Sadducean dispute / Ze'ev Safrai -- On the edge of the Diaspora : Jews in the Dead Sea region in the first two centuries C.E. / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Re-imagining the eschatological war -- 4Q285/11Q14 / Brian Schultz -- Mattathias' final speech (1 Maccabees 2) : from religious zeal to Simonide propaganda / Daniel R. Schwartz -- Late Iron Age Judean cooking pots with impressed handles : a new class of stamped impressions from the kingdom of Judah / Itzick Shai, David Ben-Shlomo and Aren M. Maeir -- The names of the rivers / Michael E. Stone -- The Book of Enoch and the Ethiopian manuscript tradition : new data / Loren T. Struckenbruck with Ted M. Erho -- Buried manuscripts and empty tombs : the Qumran Genizah theory revisited / Joan E. Taylor -- Gleanings from the plates of unidentified fragments : two PAM 43.674 identifications (4Q365 and 4Q416) / Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar -- Eclectic text editions of Hebrew Scripture / Emanuel Tov -- 4Q252 : Listenwissenschaft and covenantal patriarchal blessings / Shani Tzoref -- The common ownership of property in Essene communities / James C. VanderKam -- The identification of biblical Achzib at Khirbet 'Ēn el-Kizbe in the Judean Shephelah, and the origins of Shimon Bar Kokhba / Boaz Zissu and Erasmus Gass.
Abstract The volume contains the 22 papers presented to Hanan Eshel before his death, covering topics in archaeology, history, and textual studies, with a particular emphasis on aspects relating to the Dead Sea Scrolls, spanning the late Iron Age through late Antiquity.
General noteIncludes indexes.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
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