Benedikt Eckhardt, Ph. D. (2011) in Ancient History, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, is Research Fellow at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. He has published on Hasmonean and Herodian history and other aspects of the religious history of antiquity.

• Benedikt Eckhardt, Introduction: Yet Another Book on Jewish Identity in Antiquity; David Goodblatt, Varieties of Identity in Late Second Temple Judah (200 B.C.E.–135 C.E.); Arie van der Kooij. The Claim of Maccabean Leadership and the Use of Scripture; Jodi Magness, Toilet Practices, Purity Concerns, and Sectarianism in the Late Second Temple Period; Hannah Harrington, Identity and Alterity in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Benedikt Eckhardt, “An Idumean, that is, a Half-Jew.” Hasmoneans and Herodians Between Ancestry and Merit;Adam Kolman Marshak, Rise of the Idumeans: Ethnicity and Politics in Herod’s Judea; Linda-Marie Günther; Die Hasmonäerin Alexandra—Integrationsfigur für den Widerstand gegen den neuen König Herodes?; Julia Wilker, “God is with Italy now.” Pro-Roman Jews and the Jewish Revolt; Clemens Leonhard, “Herod’s Days” and the Development of Jewish and Christian Festivals; Günter Stemberger, Forbidden Gentile Food in Early Rabbinic Writings; Korbinian Spann, The Meaning of Circumcision for Strangers in Rabbinic Literature;