Follow the Wise : : Studies in Jewish History and Culture in Honor of Lee I. Levine / / ed. by Zeev Weiss, Oded Irshai, Jodi Magness, Seth Schwartz.

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• MitwirkendeR: Adler, Yonatan,; Amit, David,; Barag, Dan,; Baumgarten, Albert,; Cohen, Shaye,; Demsky, Aaron,; Freyne, Sean,; Gruen, Erich,; Hachlili, Rachel,; Horst, Pieter,; Kalmin, Richard,; Kloner, Amo,; Lapin, Hayim,; Levine, David,; Magness, Jodi,; Neher, Elisheva,; Newman, Hillel,; Oppenheimer, Aharon,; Reich, Ronny,; Rutgers, Leonard,; Sanders, E.,; Schremer, Adiel,; Schwartz, Daniel,; Schwartz, Joshua,; Schwartz, Seth,; Shukron, Eli,; Weiss, Zeev,; Whetstone, Sherry,
• HerausgeberIn: Irshai, Oded,; Magness, Jodi,; Schwartz, Seth,; Weiss, Zeev,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (600 p.)

In 1961, when Lee Israel Levine graduated from both Columbia College in New York, majoring in philosophy, and Jewish Theological Seminary, majoring in Talmud, this accomplishment was only a precursor to the brilliant career that would follow. While researching his Columbia University dissertation in...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Biography of Lee I. Levine
• Publications of Lee I. Levine
• Abbreviations
• Part 1 Hellenism, Christianity, and Judaism
• Hellenism and Judaism before and after World War II: Two Case Studies-A. D. Momigliano and E. J. Bickerman
• The Name of the Ruse: The Toss of a Ring to Save Life and Honor
• Jesus and the Galilean Am ha-Aretz: A Reconsideration of an Old Problem
• Hellenism and Judaism: Fluid Boundaries
• Porphyry on Judaism: Some Observations
• The Bishops of Sepphoris: Christianity and Synagogue Iconography in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centu
• The Humanistic Evaluation of Religion
• Part 2 Art and Archaeology: Jerusalem and Galilee
• The Observance of Ritual Purity after 70 c.e.: A Reevaluation of the Evidence in Light of Recent Archaeological Discoveries
• The Tomb of Jason Reconsidered
• The Hippo-Stadium /Amphitheater in Jerusalem
• Aramaic Ostraca of the Late Second Temple Period from a Farmhouse North of Jerusalem
• An "Encore" on the Bar Kochba Tetradrachm: A Re-vision of Interpretation
• Burial Practices in Beth Sheʿarim and the Question of Dating the Patriarchal Necropolis
• Part 3 The Rabbis
• Abbaye's Family Origins: A Study in Rabbinic Genealogy
• The Miracle of the Septuagint in Ancient Rabbinic and Christian Literature
• The Rabbinic Class Revisited: Rabbis as Judges in Later Roman Palestine
• Rabbis, Preachers, and Aggadists: An Aspect of Jewish Culture in Third- and Fourth-Century Palestine
• Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and Babylonia: Ties and Tensions
• The Religious Orientation of Non-Rabbis in Second-Century Palestine: A Rabbinic Perspective
• Martyrdom, the Middle Way, and Mediocrity (Genesis Rabbah 82:8)
• Sinai-Mountain and Desert: The Desert Geography and Theology of the Rabbis and Desert Fathers
• Rabbinic and Roman Honor and Deference: Y. Berakot 5.1, 9a, and Y. Bikkurim 3.3, 65c-d
• Part 4 The Ancient Synagogue
• The Dura-Europos Synagogue Wall Paintings: A Question of Origin and Interpretation
• Priests and Purity in the Dura-Europos Synagogue
• The Problem of the Scarcity of Synagogues from 70 to ca. 250 c.e.: The Case of Synagogue 1 at Nabratein (2nd-3rd Century
• The Synagogue as Foe in Early Christian Literature