Bread, wine, walls and scrolls / / Magen Broshi

• Autore: Broshi Magen
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , 2001; ©2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 220.86413
• Soggetto topico: Food in the Bible
• Soggetto geografico: Palestine Antiquities; Palestine Social life and customs
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Bread, wine, walls and scrolls
• ISBN: 1-4411-0933-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812526403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. . -Supplement series ; ; 36.