Table Of Content‘Go Out and Study the Land’
(Judges 18:2)
Supplements
to the
Journal for the Study
of Judaism
Editor
Benjamin G. Wright, III
Department of Religion Studies, Lehigh University
Associate Editors
Florentino García Martínez
Qumran Institute, University of Groningen
Hindy Najman
Department and Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Advisory Board
g. bohak – j.j. collins – j. duhaime – p.w. van der horst –
a.k. petersen – m. popoviĆ – j.t.a.g.m. van ruiten –
j. sievers – g. stemberger – e.j.c. tigchelaar –
j. magliano-tromp
VOLUME 148
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Aren M. Maeir
1958–2010
‘Go Out and Study the Land’
(Judges 18:2)
Archaeological, Historical and
Textual Studies in Honor of Hanan Eshel
Edited by
Aren M. Maeir,
Jodi Magness,
and Lawrence H. Schiffman
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2012
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
“Go out and study the land” (Judges 18:2) : archaeological, historical, and textual studies in
honor of Hanan Eshel / edited by Aren M. Maeir, Jodi Magness, and Lawrence H. Schiffman.
p. cm. — (Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 148)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-90-04-20268-9 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Bible—Antiquities. 2. Bible—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 3. Jews—History—
586 B.C.–70 A.D. 4. Judaism—History—Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.–210 A.D.
5. Qumran community. 6. Dead Sea scrolls. 7. Excavations (Archaeology)—Israel.
8. Excavations (Archaeology)—Judaea, Wilderness of. 9. Israel—Antiquities.
10. Qumran Site (West Bank)—Antiquities. I. Eshel, Hanan. II. Maeir, Aren M.
III. Magness, Jodi. IV. Schiffman, Lawrence H.
BS621.G64 2011
220.9—dc23
2011034740
ISSN 1384-2161
ISBN 978 90 04 20268 9
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CONTENTS
Preface ............................................................................................ ix
Prof. Hanan Eshel: In Memoriam ............................................. xi
Hanan Eshel—List of Publications ............................................ xv
List of Contributors ...................................................................... xxxvii
Alexander Jannaeus—Priest and King ...................................... 1
Dan B. Barag
Herod’s Eagle ................................................................................. 7
Albert I. Baumgarten
The Classification of 4Q505: Daily or Festival Prayers? ........ 23
Esther G. Chazon
The Artaxerxes Correspondence of Ezra 4, Nehemiah’s Wall,
and Persian Provincial Administration ................................ 35
Lisbeth S. Fried
Protection from Birds in the Book of Jubilees ......................... 59
Betsy Halpern-Amaru
Ancient Material in Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliʿezer: Basilides,
Qumran, the Book of Jubilees ................................................. 69
Menahem Kister
The Covenant with the Levites (Jer 33:21) in the
Proto-Masoretic Text of Jeremiah in Light of the Dead
Sea Scrolls .................................................................................. 95
Armin Lange
Disposing of the Dead: An Illustration of the Intersection
of Archaeology and Text ......................................................... 117
Jodi Magness
vi contents
Josephus and Early Halakhah: The Exclusion of Impure
Persons from Holy Precincts ....................................................... 133
Vered Noam
An Elusive Sadducean Dispute ........................................................ 147
Ze’ev Safrai
On the Edge of the Diaspora: Jews in the Dead Sea Region
in the First Two Centuries C.E. .................................................. 175
Lawrence H. Schiffman
Re-Imagining the Eschatological War—4Q285/11Q14 ............... 197
Brian Schultz
Mattathias’ Final Speech (1 Maccabees 2): From Religious
Zeal to Simonide Propaganda ..................................................... 213
Daniel R. Schwartz
Late Iron Age Judean Cooking Pots with Impressed Handles:
A New Class of Stamped Impressions from the
Kingdom of Judah ......................................................................... 225
Itzick Shai, David Ben-Shlomo and Aren M. Maeir
The Names of the Rivers .................................................................. 245
Michael E. Stone
The Book of Enoch and the Ethiopian Manuscript Tradition:
New Data ........................................................................................ 257
Loren T. Stuckenbruck with Ted M. Erho
Buried Manuscripts and Empty Tombs: The Qumran Genizah
Theory Revisited ............................................................................ 269
Joan E. Taylor
Gleanings from the Plates of Unidentified Fragments:
Two PAM 43.674 Identifications (4Q365 and 4Q416) ........... 317
Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar
contents vii
Eclectic Text Editions of Hebrew Scripture .................................. 323
Emanuel Tov
4Q252: Listenwissenschaft and Covenantal Patriarchal
Blessings .......................................................................................... 335
Shani Tzoref
The Common Ownership of Property in Essene
Communities .................................................................................. 359
James C. VanderKam
The Identification of Biblical Achzib at Khirbet ʿĒn el-Kizbe in
the Judean Shephelah, and the Origins of Shimon Bar
Kokhba ............................................................................................ 377
Boaz Zissu and Erasmus Gass
Index of Ancient Sources ................................................................. 427
Index of Modern Authors ................................................................ 448
