Social History of the Jews in Antiquity

Jonathan Ben-Dov (Herausgegeben von) Born 1971; has been a research fellow at New York University (ISAW), The University of Durham, and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (Jerusalem); currently associate professor at the department of Bible, Tel Aviv University.Michal Bar-Asher Siegal (Herausgegeben von) Born 1979; was an elected member of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences, Harry Starr Fellow at Harvard University, and visiting professor at Yale University; currently scholar of rabbinic Judaism and associate professor at the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

• Michal Bar-Asher Siegal/ Jonathan Ben-Dov/Eyal Regev: IntroductionI. Second Temple StudiesGabriele Boccaccini: Jewish Scholarship on the Second Temple Period: From the Renaissance to Albert I. Baumgarten − Martin Goodman: Philo's Extreme Allegorists Revisited −Maxine Grossman: The Dead Sea Sectarians: Breaking the Boundaries of an Essene-Shaped Space − Charlotte Hempel: Self-Fashioning in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Thickening the Description of What Rule Texts Do − Sylvie Honigman: Social and Economic Upheavals and the "De-Traditionalization" of Judean Society in Hellenistic Times: The Background to Sectarianism − Steve Mason: John of Gischala and Simon bar Giora from Gerasa: A National Revolt? − Eyal Regev: The Practice of Piety: The Puritans and Qumran − Daniel Schwartz: Who Brought on Antiochus's Decrees? On the Chaotic and "Worthless" Prehistory of Bickerman's Gott der Makkabäer − Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra: The Place of 4QMMT in the Corpus of Qumran Manuscripts: Beyond the Sussmann-Schiffman DichotomyII. Rabbinics and Early ChristianityMichal Bar-Asher Siegal: Public Confession in the Babylonian Talmud and in Contemporary Christian Sources − Jonathan Ben-Dov: Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi and the Roman Year − Shaye J.D. Cohen: Are Women and Gentiles "Persons" (Adam, Benei Adam) in the Eyes of the Mishnah? − Steven Fraade: "Reading Leads to Translating" in a Multilingual Context: The View from Early Rabbinic Texts (and Beyond) − Maren Niehoff: Celsus's Jew in Third-Century Caesarea: Tracing Hellenistic Judaism in Origen's Contra Celsum − Adele Reinhartz: The Fourth Gospel and the First-Century Outreach Campaign to the Gentiles − Adiel Schremer: How Can Rabbinic Narratives Talk History?III. Sociological Models and Ancient Judaism: Former Students in DialogueStéphanie E. Binder: Contre Apion I. 183-205; II. 43. Quelle audience pour les passages attribués à Hécatée? −Shlomit Kendi Harel: Yom Hakippurim: Day, Year, or Eschatological Jubilee? − Hillel Newman: Religious Conviction (Religion) and Ethical Practice (Morality) in a Jewish Group in Antiquity: Strengthening a Sociological Approach − Samuele Rocca: The Jews among the Middle Ruling Class of Roman Italy? An Elaboration of a Thesis by Paul Veyne − Elisheva, Shoshana, Margalit, and Naama Baumgarten: Remembering it Well: In Lieu of a Retrospective