Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real

is the Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

• Maren Niehoff: Journeys on the Way to This VolumeImagined and Real GeographyEwen Bowie: Eastern Mediterranean Travel: The View from Aphrodisias and Hadrianoutherae - Janet Downie: The Romance of Imperial Travel in Aelius Aristides' Smyrna Orations - Nicola Zwingmann: The Account of a Journey in the Erôtes of [Pseudo-] Lucian in the Context of Ancient Travel - Amit Gevaryahu: There and Back Again: A Journey to Ashkelon and its Intertexts in Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 4:6 (=Hagigah 2:2) - Benjamin Isaac: Virtual Journeys in the Roman Near East: Maps and Geographical TextsReconstructing Encounters in Distant PlacesFroma Zeitlin: Apodêmia: The Adventure of Travel in the Greek Novel - Kendra Eshleman: Eastern Travel in Apollonius and the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas - Maren Niehoff: Parodies of Educational Journeys in Josephus, Justin Martyr and Lucian - Jonathan Price: The Historiographical Vehicle of Lucian's Journey in Verae Historiae - Catherine Hezser: Strangers on the Road: Otherness, Identification and Disguise in Rabbinic Travel Tales of Late Roman PalestineBetween the Bodily and the HolyIan Rutherford: Concord and Communitas: Greek Elements in Philo's Account of Jewish Pilgrimage - Laura Nasrallah: Imposing Travelers. An Inscription from Galatia and the Journeys of the Earliest Christians - Sarit Kattan Gribetz: "Lead Me Forth in Peace": The Wayfarer's Prayer and Rabbinic Rituals of Travel in the Roman World - Georgia Frank: Touching and Feeling in Late Antique Pilgrims' NarrativesJesus' Travels from Different PerspectivesReinhard Feldmeier: The Wandering Jesus: Luke's "Travel Narrative" - Richard Kalmin: Jesus' Descent to the Underworld in the Babylonian Talmud and in Christian Literature of the Roman EastDestination RomeDaniel Schwartz: "Going up to Rome" in Josephus' Antiquities - Knut Backhaus: From Disaster to Disclosure: The Shipwreck in the Book of Acts in Light of Greco-Roman Ideology - Yonatan Moss: "From Syria all the Way to Rome:" Ignatius of Antioch's Pauline Journey to Christianity