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Masada and the world of the New Testament / edited by John F. Hall, John W. Welch.

Contributor(s): Hall, John Franklin | Welch, John W. (John Woodland)
Material type: TextTextSeries: BYU Studies monographs: Publisher: Provo, Utah : BYU Studies, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0842523448 (pbk.)Subject(s): Masada Site (Israel) | Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Israel -- Masada Site | Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible. New Testament -- AntiquitiesLOC classification: DS110.M33 | M26 1997Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Masada : Herod's fortress and the Zealots' last stand / Yigael Yadin and S. Kent Brown -- King Herod / Richard Neitzel Holzapfel -- Herod's wealth / John W. Welch -- Herod the Great's building program / Andrew Teasdale -- Alexander the Great comes to Jerusalem : the Jewish response to Hellenism / Cecilia M. Peek -- A historical sketch of Galilee / Andrew C. Skinner -- Revolutionaries in the first century / Kent P. Jackson -- Legal and social perspectives on robbers in first-century Judea / John W. Welch -- "The keys of the kindgom" : keys from Masada / Marti Lu Allen -- The virgins' lamps : shine beautiful! / Marti Lu Allen -- Loosing a shoe latchet : sandals and footwear in the first century / Shane A. Baker -- The fruit of the vine : wine at Masada and in the New Testament / Jo Ann H. Seely -- Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin : languages of New Testament Judea / Roger T. Macfarlane -- Coins in the New Testament / Nanci DeBloois -- Gammadia on early Jewish and Christian garments / John W. Welch and Claire Foley
The priestly tithe in the first century A.D. / John A. Tvedtnes -- The Masada synagogue and its relationship to Jewish worship during the Second Temple period / E. Jan Wilson -- Miqvaot : ritual immersion baths in Second Temple (Intertestamental) Jewish history / Stephen D. Ricks -- The Masada fragments, the Qumran Scrolls, and the New Testament / David Rolph Seely -- Sacred books : the canon of the Hebrew Bible at the end of the first century / Robert L. Maxwell -- The Roman province of Judea : a historical overview / John F. Hall -- The Roman army in the first century / William J. Hamblin --Casting stones : ballista, stones as weapons, and death by stoning / James V. Garrison -- And they cast lots : divination, democracy, and Josephus / Eric D. Huntsman -- Suicide at Masada and in the world of the New Testament / Daniel K. Judd -- The reliability of Josephus : can he be trusted? / Eric D. Huntsman -- History and fable, heroism and fanaticism : Nachman Ben-Yehuda's The Masada Myth / Arnold H. Green.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Masada : Herod's fortress and the Zealots' last stand / Yigael Yadin and S. Kent Brown -- King Herod / Richard Neitzel Holzapfel -- Herod's wealth / John W. Welch -- Herod the Great's building program / Andrew Teasdale -- Alexander the Great comes to Jerusalem : the Jewish response to Hellenism / Cecilia M. Peek -- A historical sketch of Galilee / Andrew C. Skinner -- Revolutionaries in the first century / Kent P. Jackson -- Legal and social perspectives on robbers in first-century Judea / John W. Welch -- "The keys of the kindgom" : keys from Masada / Marti Lu Allen -- The virgins' lamps : shine beautiful! / Marti Lu Allen -- Loosing a shoe latchet : sandals and footwear in the first century / Shane A. Baker -- The fruit of the vine : wine at Masada and in the New Testament / Jo Ann H. Seely -- Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin : languages of New Testament Judea / Roger T. Macfarlane -- Coins in the New Testament / Nanci DeBloois -- Gammadia on early Jewish and Christian garments / John W. Welch and Claire Foley

The priestly tithe in the first century A.D. / John A. Tvedtnes -- The Masada synagogue and its relationship to Jewish worship during the Second Temple period / E. Jan Wilson -- Miqvaot : ritual immersion baths in Second Temple (Intertestamental) Jewish history / Stephen D. Ricks -- The Masada fragments, the Qumran Scrolls, and the New Testament / David Rolph Seely -- Sacred books : the canon of the Hebrew Bible at the end of the first century / Robert L. Maxwell -- The Roman province of Judea : a historical overview / John F. Hall -- The Roman army in the first century / William J. Hamblin --Casting stones : ballista, stones as weapons, and death by stoning / James V. Garrison -- And they cast lots : divination, democracy, and Josephus / Eric D. Huntsman -- Suicide at Masada and in the world of the New Testament / Daniel K. Judd -- The reliability of Josephus : can he be trusted? / Eric D. Huntsman -- History and fable, heroism and fanaticism : Nachman Ben-Yehuda's The Masada Myth / Arnold H. Green.

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