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Author Broshi, Magen

Title Bread, wine, walls and scrolls / Magen Broshi
Published Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations, maps, 1 portrait
Series The Library of Second Temple Studies
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 36
Library of Second Temple studies.
Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 36.
Contents 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
Summary 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 topics addressed in this entertaining and illuminating book are wine and food consumption, studies of population, the ancient city of Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the use and abuse of archaeology in historical and biblical research. This volume is designed for scholars and for any non-specialist
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Bible -- History of contemporary events. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013658
Bible fast
Bible -- Histoire des événements contemporains. ram
Subject Food in the 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.
SUBJECT Palestine -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097164
Palestine -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097183
Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097167
Palestine -- History -- 70-638. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097168
Subject Middle East -- Palestine
Palestine -- Moeurs et coutumes.
Palestine -- Jusqu'à 70.
Palestine -- 70-638.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781441109330
1441109331