Bread, Wine, Walls and Scrolls

by Broshi, Magen

• ISBN13: 9781841272016
• ISBN10: 1841272019
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-09
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Pr

Summary

This volume of essays by Magen Broshi, formerly Curator of the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem and a veteran archaeologist, covers various aspects of both the material and spiritual life of ancient Palestine in the biblical and post-biblical periods. Among the topics addressed in this entertaining and illuminating book are wine and food consumption, studies of population, the ancient city of Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the use and abuse of archaeology in historical and biblical research. This volume is designed for scholars and for any non-specialists with a keen interest in ancient life in the Holy Land.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(10)
Abbreviations	10	(4)
Part I ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY
Religion, Ideology and Politics and Their Impact on Palestinian Archaeology	14	(25)
Troy and Jericho	39	(7)
How to Recognize a Jew	46	(6)
Archaeological Museums in Israel: Reflections on Problems of National Identity	52	(8)
Fire, Soil and Water: The Settlement of the Hilly Regions of Palestine in the Early Iron Age	60	(11)
The Credibility of Josephus	71	(9)
Part II DEMOGRAPHY AND DAILY LIFE
The Population of Iron Age Palestine	80	(6)
Methodology of Population Estimates: The Roman-Byzantine Period as a Case Study	86	(7)
The Population of Western Palestine in the Roman-Byzantine Period	93	(17)
Estimating the Population of Ancient Jerusalem	110	(11)
The Diet of Palestine in the Roman Period: Introductory Notes	121	(23)
Wine in Ancient Palestine: Introductory Notes	144	(30)
Part III JERUSALEM
The Expansion of Jerusalem in the Reigns of Hezekiah and Manasseh	174	(7)
Jerusalem, the City of David, and the Other Capitals of the Land of Israel	181	(7)
The Role of the Temple in the Herodian Economy	188	(10)
Part IV DEAD SEA SCROLLS
The Archaeology of Qumran: A Reconsideration	198	(13)
Anti-Qumranic Polemics in the Talmud	211	(12)
Visionary Architecture and Town Planning in the Dead Sea Scrolls	223	(15)
Predestination in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls	238	(14)
Matrimony and Poverty: Jesus and the Essenes	252	(7)
Was Qumran, Indeed, a Monastery? the Consensus and its Challengers: An Archaeologist's View	259	(15)
Hatred---An Essene Religious Principle and its Christian Consequences	274	(10)
A Day in the Life of Hananiah Nothos: A Story	284	(12)
Select Bibliography 1968-2000	296	(5)
Index of References	301	(6)
Index of Modern Authors	307