Contents

Preface

Prof. Hanan Eshel: In Memoriam

Hanan Eshel—List of Publications

List of Contributors

Alexander Jannaeus—Priest and King

Herod’s Eagle

The Classification of 4Q505: Daily or Festival Prayers?

The Artaxerxes Correspondence of Ezra 4, Nehemiah’s Wall, and Persian Provincial Administration

Protection from Birds in the Book of Jubilees

Ancient Material in Pirqe de-Rabbi Eli'ezer: Basilides, Qumran, the Book of Jubilees

The Covenant with the Levites (Jer 33:21) in the Proto-Masoretic Text of Jeremiah in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Disposing of the Dead: An Illustration of the Intersection of Archaeology and Text

Josephus and Early Halakhah: The Exclusion of Impure Persons from Holy Precincts

An Elusive Sadducean Dispute

On the Edge of the Diaspora: Jews in the Dead Sea Region in the First Two Centuries C.E.

Re-Imagining the Eschatological War—4Q285/11Q14

Mattathias’ Final Speech (1 Maccabees 2): From Religious Zeal to Simonide Propaganda

Late Iron Age Judean Cooking Pots with Impressed Handles: A New Class of Stamped Impressions from the Kingdom of Judah

The Names of the Rivers

The Book of Enoch and the Ethiopian Manuscript Tradition: New Data

Buried Manuscripts and Empty Tombs: The Qumran Genizah Theory Revisited

Gleanings from the Plates of Unidentified Fragments: Two PAM 43.674 Identifications (4Q365 and 4Q416)

Eclectic Text Editions of Hebrew Scripture

4Q252: Listenwissenschaft and Covenantal Patriarchal Blessings

The Common Ownership of Property in Essene Communities

The Identification of Biblical Achzib at Khirbet 'Ēn el-Kizbe in the Judean Shephelah, and the Origins of Shimon Bar Kokhba

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors