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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786909303321

Autore

Broshi Magen

Titolo

Bread, wine, walls and scrolls / / Magen Broshi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-4411-0933-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series ; ; 36

Disciplina

220.86413

Soggetti

Food in the Bible

Palestine Antiquities

Palestine Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Part I: ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY; Chapter 1 RELIGION, IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS AND THEIR IMPACT ON PALESTINIAN ARCHAEOLOGY; Chapter 2 TROY AND JERICHO; Chapter 3 How TO RECOGNIZE A JEW; Chapter 4 ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS IN ISRAEL: REFLECTIONS ON PROBLEMS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY; Chapter 5 FIRE, SOIL AND WATER: THE SETTLEMENT OF THE HILLY REGIONS OF PALESTINE IN THE EARLY IRON AGE; Chapter 6 THE CREDIBILITY OF JOSEPHUS; Part II: DEMOGRAPHY AND DAILY LIFE; Chapter 7 THE POPULATION OF IRON AGE PALESTINE

Chapter 8 METHODOLOGY OF POPULATION ESTIMATES: THE ROMAN-ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΕ PERIOD AS A CASE STUDYChapter 9 THE POPULATION OF WESTERN PALESTINE IN THE ROMANBYZANTINE PERIOD; Chapter 10 ESTIMATING THE POPULATION OF ANCIENT JERUSALEM; Chapter 11 THE DIET OF PALESTINE IN THE ROMAN PERIOD: INTRODUCTORY NOTES; Chapter 12 WINE IN ANCIENT PALESTINE : INTRODUCTORY NOTES; Part III: JERUSALEM; Chapter 13 THE EXPANSION OF JERUSALEM IN THE REIGNS OF HEZEKIAH AND MANASSEH; Chapter 14 JERUSALEM, THE CITY OF DAVID, AND THE OTHER CAPITALS OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL

Chapter 15 THE ROLE OF THE TEMPLE IN THE HERODIAN ECONOMYPart IV: DEAD SEA SCROLLS; Chapter 16 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF QUMRAN: A RECONSIDERATION; Chapter 17 ANTI-QUMRANIC POLEMICS IN THE



TALMUD; Chapter 18 VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE AND TOWN PLANNING IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS; Chapter 19 PREDESTINATION IN THE BIBLE AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS; Chapter 20 MATRIMONY AND POVERTY: JESUS AND THE ESSENES; Chapter 21 WAS QUMRAN, INDEED, A MONASTERY? THE CONSENSUS AND ITS CHALLENGERS: AN ARCHAEOLOGIST''S VIEW; Chapter 22 HATRED-AN ESSENE RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLE AND ITS CHRISTIAN CONSEQUENCES

Chapter 23 A DAY IN THE LIFE OF HANANIAH NOTHOS: A STORYSelect Bibliography 1968-2000; Index of References; Index of Modern Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This volume of essays by Magen Broshi, formerly Curator of the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem and a veteran archaeologist, covers various aspects of both the material and spiritual life of ancient Palestine in the biblical and post-biblical periods. Among the topics addressed in this entertaining and illuminating book are wine and food consumption, studies of population, the ancient city of Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the use and abuse of archaeology in historical and biblical research. This volume is designed for scholars and for any non-specialist