The middle Maccabees : archaeology, history, and the rise of the Hasmonean kingdom / edited by Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berlin, Andrea, editor.

Kosmin, Paul J., 1984- editor.

Series:

Archaeology and biblical studies ; no. 28.

Archaeology and biblical studies ; number 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--History--168 B.C.-135 A.D.

Jews.

History.

Judaism--History--To 70 A.D.

Judaism.

Maccabees--History.

Maccabees.

Judaea (Region)--History.

Judaea (Region).

Judaea (Region)--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Middle East--Judaea Region.

Jews--History--168 B.C.-135 A.D., Hasmonean rebellion to Bar Kokhba Rebellion.

Judea (Region) (Israel)--History.

Judea (Region) (Israel)--Antiquities.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 498 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2021]

Summary:

"This collection of essays lays out the charged, complicated beginning of an independent Jewish state founded by the Maccabees in the second century BCE. Contributors offer focused, interdisciplinary analyses of the archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and textual evidence to create a holistic view of Hasmonean history that acknowledges political developments and evolving social responses to continuous militarized conflict involving the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt and the Seleucids of Syria"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The middle Maccabees : a period comes into view / Andrea M. Berlin, Paul J. Kosmin

Part 1. Material Evidence : The Archaelolgoy of the Regions. The regions and material evidence : overview / Andrea M. Berlin

Jerusalem in the early Hellenistic period : new evidence for its nature and location / Yiftah Shalev, Efrat Bocher, Helena Roth, Débora Sandhaus, Nitsan Shalom, Yuval Gadot

Hellenistic military architecture from the Givʻati parking lot excavations, Jerusalem / Ayala Zilberstein

Settlement and history of the Northern Judean Hills and Southern Samaria during the early Hasmonean period / Dvir Raviv

Settlements and borders in the Shephelah from the fourth to the first centuries BCE / Débora Sandhaus

Settlement in the Southern Coastal Plain ("Philistia") during the early Hellenistic periods (third through mid-second centuries BCE) / Uzi ʻAd

Go West : archaeological evidence for Hasmonean expansion toward the Mediterranean Coast / Yehiel Zelinger

Galilee in the second century BCE : material culture and ethnic identity / Uzi Leibner

The upper Galilee and the Northern Coast / Andrea M. Berlin

The Hasmonean settlement in Galilee : a numismatic perspective / Danny Syon

Contribution of the Rhodian Eponyms amphora stamps tot eh history of the Maccabees : the data / Gerald Finkielsztejn

John Hyrcanus I's first autonomous coins / Donald T. Ariel.

Part 2. The Wider Stage : A Small State in a Great Power World. Overview : The middle Maccabees in context / Paul J. Kosmin

Before the spark ignites the fire : structural instabilities in Southern Syria / Sylvie Honigman

Seleucid throne wars : resilience and disintegrtation of the greatest successor kingdom from Demetrius I to Antiochus VII / Altay Coşkun

The machinations of the Ptolemaic state in its relationship with Judea (160-104 BCE) / Christelle Fischer-Bovet

Silver coinage in Seleucid Coele Syria and Phoenicia : implications for the history of Juday / Catharine Lorber

Roman hegemony and the Hasmoneans : construction of empire / Duncan E. MacRae

PART 3. Voices : Textual Responses to the Middle Maccabees. Reading the middle Maccabees / Benedikt Eckhardt

Competitors to middle Maccabees : evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls / Jutta Jokiranta

Jewish voices on Rome and Roman imperialism / Erich S. Gruen

Conclusion : The Maccabean rise to power, in archaeological and historical context / Andrea M. Berlin, Paule J. Kosmin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-476) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781628373059

1628373059

9780884145035

0884145034

OCLC:

1245861560