| Description |
1 online resource (423 p.) |
| Series |
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Series ; v.214 |
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Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Figures and Tables -- Time Periods -- 1 Introduction -- 1 The Question and the Approach -- 2 Galilee in Second Temple Period Sources -- 2.1 Galilee in First Maccabees -- 2.2 Galilee in Judith -- 2.3 Galilee in Strabo and Pliny -- 2.4 Galilee in the Works of Josephus -- 3 Hasmonean Expansion, Ideology of Occupation, and Influence -- 3.1 Changes in the Archaeological Record During the 2nd to the 1st Century bce -- 3.2 Influences on 1st Century bce Galilean Space -- 4 Defining Ancient Judaism -- 4.1 Ancient Group Identity |
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4.2 Emic Definitions of Judaism -- 4.3 Etic Definitions of Judaism -- 4.4 Summary -- 5 Defining Place and Space -- 5.1 Spatial Theories -- 5.2 Contested Spaces -- 5.3 Jewish Space in Galilee -- 2 The Material Culture of Purity in Late Second Temple Period Galilee -- 1 Jewish Ritual Immersion Pools -- 1.1 Terminology for Jewish Ritual Immersion Pools -- 1.2 Remains of Jewish Ritual Immersion Pools -- 1.3 Sepphoris -- 1.4 Interpreting Remains of Ritual Immersion Pools -- 1.5 Literary Evidence on Ritual Bathing -- 1.6 Ritual Immersion Pools as Spaces -- 2 Stone Vessels -- 2.1 Origins and Development |
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2.2 Vessel Forms and Purposes -- 2.3 Prevalence -- 2.4 Locations Where Stone Vessels Have Been Found in Galilee -- 2.5 Interpreting Stone Vessels -- 2.6 Literary Evidence Relating to Stone Vessels -- 2.7 Stone Vessels as Spatial Producers -- 3 Ritual Immersion Pools and Stone Vessels, Space and Identity -- 3 Purity in Late Second Temple Period Judaism -- 1 The Body in Relation to Purity, and Purity in the Bodily Sphere -- 2 Jewish Literary Sources of Purity and Body Conceptions -- 3 Categories of (Im)Purity -- 3.1 Impurities Generated from the Body -- 3.2 Impurities Generated Outside of the Body |
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4 Purposes of Becoming Pure/Avoiding Impurity -- 4.1 The Holiness of "the Land of Israel" -- 4.2 Boundary Management in Everyday Life -- 5 The Place of Purity in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee -- 4 Jewish Communal Structures in Late Second Temple Period Galilee -- 1 Issues for Interpreting Second Temple Period Communal Structures -- 2 Proposed Galilean Communal Structures of the Late Second Temple Period -- 2.1 Capernaum -- 2.2 Chorazin -- 2.3 Khirbet Qana -- 2.4 Khirbet Wadi Ḥamam -- 2.5 Majduliyya -- 2.6 Sepphoris -- 2.7 Tel Rekhesh -- 2.8 Summary -- 3 Gamla -- 3.1 Overview of Building A |
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3.2 Overview of Building S -- 3.3 The Spaces of the Gamla Structures -- 4 Magdala -- 4.1 Overview of the Building -- 4.2 The Space of the Magdala Structure -- 5 Jewish Communal Spaces in Galilee -- 5.1 Connections to the Jerusalem Temple -- 5.2 Similarity and Dissimilarity in Galilean Communal Spaces -- 5.3 Were These Structures Considered Sacred Spaces? -- 5 Textual Evidence for Jewish Communal Structures in the Late Second Temple Period -- 1 Terminology and Definition -- 2 Evidence from Inscriptions -- 2.1 North Africa (Ptolemaic/Roman Egypt) -- 2.2 Judea -- 2.3 Black Sea (Bosphorus) |
| Summary |
This book explores how Judaism shaped the spaces of ancient Galilee, and how in turn, these spaces generated further expressions of Judaism. Evidence is drawn from the beginnings of Hasmonean influence in Galilee, until the outbreak of the Great Revolt |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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2.4 Greece |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004692558 |
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900469255X |
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