Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean

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.

• ContentsList of Figures and TablesList of AbbreviationsList of Ancient SourcesPushing Sacred Boundaries: Celebrating the Career and Contributions of Jodi MagnessMatthew J. Grey, Tine Rassalle and Dennis MizziPublications by Jodi Magness lixPart 1: History, Archaeology, and Society in Roman through Early Islamic Palestine1 Where Did the Second Temple Period Low-Level Aqueduct Enter the Herodian Temple Mount? A View from the Western Wall PlazaShlomit Weksler-Bdolah2 Textual and Material Lazarus in Dialogue: Reading John 11:1–44 (53) from Its Intra-textual and Extra-Textual WorldsJürgen K. Zangenberg3 “Where May I Eat the Passover with My Disciples?”: Reassessing the Urban Setting, Furnished Room, and Dining Practices of Jesus’s Last SupperMatthew J. Grey4 Stamping Out the Embers: Roman “Mopping-Up” Operations at the End of the First Jewish RevoltGwyn Davies5 Athletic Competitions as Markers of Religious Identity in Caesarea Insights from Origen’s Newly Discovered Homilies, the Second Sophistic, and Rabbinic LiteratureMaren R. Niehoff6 Was There a Constantinian Edict Prohibiting Jews from Entering Jerusalem? Notes on Fact and FictionOded Irshai7 Unitary Coaxial and Arterial Agricultural Field Systems in the Southern Levant: Evidence of Rural Land Divisions of Late Roman DateShimon Gibson and Rafael Y. Lewis8 Settlement Patterns and Economy in the Negev and Southern Palestine in the Sixth–Eighth Centuries CE: A ReevaluationGideon AvniPart 2: Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls9 The Effects of Hasmonaean Policy on the Qumran Community: History, Theology, and ArchaeologyKenneth Atkinson10 Qumran-Related History: Contemporaries Jannaeus, Absalom, and Judah the EsseneStephen Goranson11 Economic Activity, Trade, and Manufacture at Qumran, with a Special Look at the Inscriptions and Documentary TextsSidnie White Crawford12 The Burial of Sealed Jars in the Qumran Cemetery: Disposal of Consecrated Property?Dennis Mizzi13 Timothy I of Seleucia and the Story behind the Disappearance of the Scrolls from Qumran’s Cave XII/53Oren Gutfeld14 Purity as Separation: Comparing the Dead Sea Scrolls, Rabbinic Literature, and the New TestamentLawrence H. Schiffman15 Metaphors of Sin in the Qumran Texts: A Working Typology, and Two ExamplesJoseph Lam16 Resurrection, Interred Bodies, and a Northern ParadiseJames C. VanderKamPart 3: The Development of Ancient Synagogues17 Proximity to Purity: A Spatial Analysis of Late Second Temple Synagogues and Miqwa‌ʾotBrian A. Coussens18 Gender, Time, and Space in Early Synagogue Complexes: Reflections on the Andrōn and the Gunaikōnitis in Texts and ArchaeologyJoan E. Taylor19 A Roman Period Synagogue at ShiḥinMordechai Aviam and James Riley Strange20 Synagogues in Palaestina Secunda in the Fifth–Seventh Centuries CE: How Many Have Been Found and How Many Are Still Missing?Chaim Ben-David21 Jerusalem in Galilee: Urban Architecture and Communal Belonging in a Mosaic from a Rural SynagogueKaren Britt and Raʿanan Boustan22 Two Phases of the Polychrome Plaster of the Ḥuqoq SynagogueShana O’ConnellIndexes