Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Two Groups of Non-Figurative Jewish Sarcophagi from Galilee

Chapter 2 The “Tombs of the Prophets” on the Mount of Olives

Chapter 3 A Fourth-Century CE Coin Hoard from the Qaṣrin Village

Chapter 4 Public Health in Ancient Palestine

Chapter 5 “The Longer, the More Happiness I Derive from This Undertaking”

Chapter 6 The Open Torah Ark

Chapter 7 Tamra

Chapter 8 The Amphora and the Krater in Ancient Jewish Art in the Land of Israel

Chapter 9 Local Jewish Oil Lamps of the Second to First Centuries BCE

Chapter 10 A Burial Complex and Ossuaries of the Second Temple Period on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem

Chapter 11 An Approach to Herodian Peraea

Chapter 12 A Jewish Oil Lamp Unearthed at the Red Sea Port of Roman Aila (Aqaba, Jordan)

Chapter 13 Israelite Art in Context

Chapter 14 Imperial Cult in the Decapolis

Chapter 15 Images and Identity

Chapter 16 Some Observations on the “Bema” Platforms in the Ancient Synagogues of Beth Alpha, Chorazin, and Susiya

Chapter 17 Some Notes on the Miqva’ot and Cisterns at Qumran

Chapter 18 Rome, Jerusalem, and the Colosseum

Index of Places

Index of Subjects

Index of Sources