What Athens has to do with Jerusalem : essays on classical, Jewish, and early Christian art and archaeology in honor of Gideon Foerster / by Leonard V. Rutgers, (ed.).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [535]-591) and index.

Zur Panzerstatue aus Samaria Sebaste / Klaus Fittschen -- A Dionysiac sarcophagus at Roger William Park / Rolf Winkes -- Herod's hippodrome-stadium at Caesarea and the games conducted therein / Joseph Patrich -- Mythological heroes in the service of private representation : a case study on some late antique mosaics in the Holy Land / Peter Baumann -- Women at Qumran / Jodi Magness -- The "caves of Simeon the Just" and "the minor sanhedrin" : two burial complexes from the Second Temple period in Jerusalem / Amos Kloner and Boaz Zissu -- Jewish ossuaries in Galilee / Mordechai Aviam and Danny Syon -- Appendix : petrographic examination of clay ossuaries / Anastasia Shapiro -- Jüdische Sarkophage der Kaiserzeit und der Spätantike / Guntram Koch -- New light on the Rehov inscription : identifying "the gate of Campon" at Bet Shean / Zev Weiss --

Realia, daily life, and the transmission of local stories during the Talmudic period / Yaron Eliav -- Archaeological remains of Ashkenazic Jewry in Europe : a new source of pride and history / Sam Gruber -- The reading of Scripture in early Christian liturgy / Gerard A.M. Rouwhorst -- A theoretical model concerning early Christian topography / Arnold Provoost -- Children and disease in a sixth century monastery / Blake Leyerle -- A new inscription from Caesarea Maritima and the local elite of Caesarea Maritima / Hannah M. Cotton and Werner Eck -- Jewish magicians and Christian clients in late antiquity : the testimony of amulets and inscriptions / Giancarlo Lacerenza -- Byzantine shops in the Street of the Monuments at Bet Shean (Scythopolis) / S. Agady ... [et al.]