Sources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism

Meron M. Piotrkowski, Ph.d. (2015), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a postdoctoral researcher at the university’s Department of the History of the Jewish People. He has published articles on Josephus, Jewish-Hellenistic Literature, the Temple of Onias and Jewish Papyri. Geoffrey Herman Ph.D (2006), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has published monographs and articles on Babylonian Jewish history, including A Prince without a Kingdom: the Exilarch in the Sasanian Era (Mohr Siebeck, 2012). Saskia Dönitz, PhD (2008), Freie Universität Berlin, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M. Her major fields of research include medieval Hebrew historiography, and Ashkenazic and Byzantine Jewish intellectual history. Earlier she published Überlieferung und Rezeption des Sefer Yosippon (Mohr Siebeck, 2013).

• Preface and AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsTabula GratulatoriaIntroductionPart 1 Second Temple Literature and History1 Chasing Away Lions and Weaving: The longue durée of Talmudic Gender IconsYosef Garfinkel2 Malthace, Archelaus, and Herod Antipas: Between Genealogy and TypologyDaniel R. Schwartz3 A New Perspective on Two Jewish Queens in the Second Temple Period: Alexandra of Judaea and Helena of AdiabeneEtka Liebowitz4 Was Hillel a Pharisee?Cana WermanPart 2 The Jews and the Papyri5 Ezechiel 33,21–39,29: Anmerkungen zum Profil der Sinneinheit in der nicht-masoretischen Textfassung (Papyrus 967) und zu Veränderungen durch proto-masoretische RedaktorenKarin Finsterbusch6 The Third Century BCE: New Light on Egyptian Jewish History from the PapyriNoah Hacham7 ‘Literary Jews:’ The Jewish Community of Oxyrhynchus in Light of Non-documentary Texts on PapyrusMeron M. Piotrkowski8 Shabtai in Egypt: Cultural Interaction between Jews and Egyptians under the PtolemiesZsuzsanna SzántóPart 3 Rabbinic Literature9 Babylonia of Pure Lineage: Notes on Babylonian Jewish ToponymyGeoffrey Herman10 A Spindle for Caesar’s DaughterReuven Kiperwasser11 Rabbinic Forensics: Distinguishing Egg White from Semen in b. Giṭṭin 57aJudith Baskin12 Rabbinic Images of Second Temple Diasporas and Their Links with Judaea: History of Fantasy?Isaiah Gafni13 Are Parables an Interpretation?Ronit Nikolsky14 When a Man Sells His Daughter as an ‮אמה‬‎: The ‮אמה העבריה‬‎ as m. Qiddushin’s Role Model for Becoming a WifeJudith von Bresinsky15 Classroom Encounters: An AppreciationChristiane H. TzuberiList of Publications of Prof. Tal IlanIndices

... Diese Auswahl von Artikeln aus der Festschrift hat exemplarischen Charakter, weitere interessante Publikationen lassen sich anfügen. So spiegelt der Band sowohl das breite Spektrum der Forschungsarbeiten Tal Ilans als auch ihre Kreativität. - in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 2019