A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Seán Freyne

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Zuleika Rodgers, Margaret Daly-Denton, Anne Fitzpatrick Mckinley
BRILL, 2009 - Religion - 619 pages
Starting his career as a scholar of the New Testament, Seán Freyne's work became synonymous with the study of Galilee in the Greek and Roman periods. His search for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of Judaism in the Greek and Roman periods and the development of the early Christian movement has led him to interface with scholars in many related disciplines. In order to do justice to the breadth of Seán Freyne's interests, this volume includes contributions from scholars in the fields of Archaeology, Ancient History, Classics, Hebrew Bible, Early Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, Early Christianity, New Testament, and Medieval Judaism. The resulting volume demonstrates not only the honoree's interdiciplinary interests, but also the interconnectedness of these disciplines.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
PART ONE THE JEWISH WORLD
3
What happened to the Jewish Priesthood after 70? Philip S Alexander
5
Some Mass Produced ScorpionAmulets from the Cairo Genizah Gideon Bohak
35
Josephus on the Essenes The Sources of his Information John J Collins
51
Judean Ethnic Identity in Josephus Against Apion Philip F Esler
73
What did Nehemiah do for Judaism? Anne FitzpatrickMcKinley
93
BenHur and Ancient Jewish Slavery Catherine Hezser
121
Galilee and the Implications of Empire J Andrew Overman
279
Who Wouldnt Marry Jesus? Marianne Sawicki
301
Reconsidering Its Access Internal Space and Architecture Zeev Weiss
321
PART THREE THE NEW TESTAMENT AND EARLY CHRISTIAN WORLD
343
A Feature of the Johannine Eucharist? Margaret DalyDenton
345
Copying the Death of the Founder and Gaining Paradise Majella Franzmann
367
Tertullianus Son? Jill Harries
385
From Aramaic to Greek Galilee to Syria Oral to OralWritten Richard A Horsley
401

A Matter of Perspective James S McLaren
141
The Integrity of the Rabbinic Law of Purity Mishnah Teharot Jacob Neusner
159
Josephus Justus of Tiberias and Agrippa II Zuleika Rodgers
173
PART TWO THE WORLD OF GALILEE
185
Early Printed Maps of Galilee John R Bartlett
187
The Limits of Evidence Mark A Chancey
205
Sepphoris Jotapata and Khirbet Qana Douglas R Edwards
219
George Adam Smith and the Moral Geography of Galilee Halvor Moxnes
237
Regional and Other Considerations Eric M Meyers
257
The Women the Tomb and the Climax of Mark Larry W Hurtado
427
Unsocial Bandits John S Kloppenborg
451
Another PostResurrection Meal and its Implications for the Early Understanding of the Eucharist Thomas OLoughlin
485
Reading Jesus Parables in Light of His Crucifi xion V George Shillington
505
Bread that is Brokenand Unbroken Justin Taylor
525
Composition and Performance in Mark 13 Adela Yarbro Collins
539
Observations on the ΥΠΟΚΠΙΤΑΙ in Matthew Jurgen Zangenberg
561
Index of Authors
589
Index of Ancient Sources
599

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Zuleika Rodgers, PhD (1999),Trinity College Dublin, is Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Trinity College Dublin and Director of the Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern Religion and Culture. Her research interests include Judaism in the Greek and Roman periods, and she recently published Making History: Josephus and Historical Method(Brill, 2006).Margaret Daly-Denton, PhD (1997), Trinity College Dublin, lectures at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute. An established composer of liturgical music, her current research interests lie with the early Christian reception of the psalms and she has published David in the Fourth Gospel: The Johannine Reception of the Psalms(Brill, 2000).Anne Fitzpatrick McKinley, PhD (1994), Trinity College Dublin, is Lecturer in Second Temple Judaism at Trinity College Dublin and Head of the Department of Religions and Theology. Her research interests include Judaism in the Persian period and she also published in the area of early Israelite history, The Transformation of Torah from Scribal Advice to Law(Sheffield, 1999).

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