CONTENTS

Illustrations and Maps

Abbreviations

Contributors

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE THE JEWISH WORLD

What happened to the Jewish Priesthood after 70? (Philip S. Alexander)

Some "Mass Produced" Scorpion-Amulets from the Cairo Genizah (Gideon Bohak)

Josephus on the Essenes. The Sources of his Information (John J. Collins)

Judean Ethnic Identity in Josephus' Against Apion (Philip F. Esler)

What did Nehemiah do for Judaism? (Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley)

Ben-Hur and Ancient Jewish Slavery (Catherine Hezser)

Corruption Among the High Priesthood: A Matter of Perspective (James S. McLaren)

The Integrity of the Rabbinic Law of Purity (Mishnah Teharot) (Jacob Neusner)

Monarchy vs. Priesthood: Josephus, Justus of Tiberias, and Agrippa II (Zuleika Rodgers)

PART TWO THE WORLD OF GALILEE

Early Printed Maps of Galilee (John R. Bartlett)

Archaeology, Ethnicity, and First-Century c.e. Galilee: The Limits of Evidence (Mark A. Chancey)

Walking the Roman Landscape in Lower Galilee: Sepphoris, Jotapata, and Khirbet Qana (Douglas R. Edwards)

George Adam Smith and the Moral Geography of Galilee (Halvor Moxnes)

Early and Late Synagogues at Nabratein in Upper Galilee: Regional and Other Considerations (Eric M. Meyers)

Between Rome and Parthia: Galilee and the Implications of Empire (J. Andrew Overman)

Who Wouldn't Marry Jesus? (Marianne Sawicki)

Stratum II Synagogue at Hammath Tiberias: Reconsidering Its Access, Internal Space, and Architecture (Zeev Weiss)

PART THREE THE NEW TESTAMENT AND EARLY CHRISTIAN WORLD

Drinking the Water that Jesus Gives: A Feature of the Johannine Eucharist? (Margaret Daly-Denton)

Imitatio Christi: Copying the Death of the Founder and Gaining Paradise (Majella Franzmann)

Tertullianus & Son? (Jill Harries)

The Language(s) of the Kingdom: From Aramaic to Greek, Galilee to Syria, Oral to Oral-Written (Richard A. Horsley)

The Women, the Tomb, and the Climax of Mark (Larry W. Hurtado)

Unsocial Bandits (John S. Kloppenborg)

Another Post-Resurrection Meal and its Implications for the Early Understanding of the Eucharist (Thomas O'Loughlin)

Reading Jesus' Parables in Light of His Crucifi xion (V. George Shillington)

Bread that is Broken—and Unbroken (Justin Taylor)

Composition and Performance in Mark 13 (Adela Yarbro Collins)

A Confl ict Between Brothers: Observations on the ΥΠΟΚΠΙΤΑΙ in Matthew (Jurgen Zangenberg)

Index of Authors

Index of Ancient Sources