Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

ber tomb comes from the Giv}at ha-Mivtar neighborhood of Jerusalem. It was placed on the wall opposite the entrance of the tomb ...

naica. Although literary testimony leaves no doubt that Jews lived in Rome at least since the first centuryb.c.e., archaeologica ...

now a largely independent subunit of Syria under a subordinate official: a prefect of Judea(praefectus Iudaeae).The other parts ...

ware” made from a mixture of animal dung and clay) testify to the purity concerns of the inhabitants. Toward the end of the revo ...

and Nikopolis, second-century-c.e.Neapolis is much better known. A theater, a hippodrome, and a temple dedicated to Zeus on Tell ...

reign of Trajan in 115/116-117c.e.evidently had little effect on Palestine. Ar- chaeological evidence for these uprisings remain ...

commissioned. Coins announced the new city: COLonia AELia CAPITolina CONDita (“Founding of the Colony of Aelia Capitolina”). Be- ...

the city (Damascus Gate), and in the second half of the second century c.e.another arch was built to demarcate the civil and mil ...

Qumran Undoubtedly the most famous and most widely discussed texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls are those found between 1946-1947 ...

ber of texts were written in three types of a “cryptic” Hebrew script at- tested nowhere else. Seventeen documentary texts from ...

NaFal David Apart from a number of graves dated to the Hasmonean and Herodian pe- riods in caves in and around NaFal David (Wadi ...

four of the documents were written in Hebrew (P.Yadin 49, 51, 60, 61; see fig. 18), two in Greek (P.Yadin 52, 59), the rest in A ...

ceased and Hebrew scroll fragments (8μev 2). The nine fragments from a Greek scroll of the Minor Prophets found in 8μev (8μevXII ...

an expedition in 1993 yielded nine additional documents in Aramaic, six in Greek, and four in Hebrew. Five as yet unpublished Gr ...

fragments of other religious texts that include Ben Sira, theGenesis Apocryphon,theJoshua Apocryphon, Jubilees,andSongs of the S ...

vide valuable information on the social and economic situation. There are also many papyri from Alexandria reflecting various pr ...

cheap alternative to papyrus. Texts on ostraca were not necessarily less carefully written in terms of grammar or orthography, a ...

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Magness, Jodi. 2002.The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls.Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Vaux, Roland de. 1973.Archaeology ...