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This volume of essays by Magen Broshi, formerly Curator of the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem and a veteran archaeologist, covers various aspects of both the material and spiritual life of ancient Palestine in the biblical and post-biblical periods. Among the top...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Broshi, Magen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.
Colección:Library of Second Temple studies.
Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 36.
Temas:
Bible > History of contemporary events.
Bible > Histoire des événements contemporains.
Bible
To 638
Food in the Bible.
Aliments dans la Bible.
General & world history.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Antiquities
Food in the Bible
History of contemporary events
Manners and customs
Jodendom.
Dode-Zeerollen.
Archeologie.
Manuscrits de la Mer Morte.
Palestine > Antiquities.
Palestine > Social life and customs.
Palestine > History > To 70 A.D.
Palestine > History > 70-638.
Palestine > Antiquités.
Palestine > Mœurs et coutumes.
Palestine > Histoire > Jusqu'à 70.
Palestine > Histoire > 70-638.
Middle East > Palestine
Palestine > Moeurs et coutumes.
Palestine > Jusqu'à 70.
Palestine > 70-638.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Archaeology and history. Religion, ideology and politics and their impact on Palestinian archaeology.
  • Troy and Jericho.
  • How to recognize a Jew.
  • Archaeological museums in Israel: reflections on problems of national identity.
  • Fire, soil and water: the settlement of the hilly regions of Palestine in the early Iron Age.
  • The credibility of Josephus.
  • 2. Demography and daily life. The population of Iron Age Palestine.
  • Methodology of population estimates: the Roman-Byzantine period as a case study.
  • The population of western Palestine in the Roman-Byzantine period.
  • Estimating the population of ancient Jerusalem.
  • The diet of Palestine in the Roman period: introductory notes.
  • Wine in ancient Palestine: introductory notes.
  • 3. Jerusalem. The expansion of Jerusalem in the reigns of Hezekiah and Manasseh.
  • Jerusalem, the City of David, and the other capitals of the land of Israel.
  • The role of the temple in the Herodian economy.
  • 4. Dead Sea Scrolls. The archaeology of Qumran: a reconsideration.
  • Anti-Qumranic polemics in the Talmud.
  • Visionary architecture and town planning in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • Predestination in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • Matrimony and poverty: Jesus and the Essenes.
  • Was Qumran, indeed, a monastery? The consensus and its challengers: an archaeologist's view.
  • Hatred: an Essene religious principle and its Christian consequences.
  • A day in the life of Hananiah Nothos: a story.

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