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

Contributor(s): Berlin, Andrea [editor.] | Kosmin, Paul J, 1984- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Archaeology and biblical studies: 28.Publisher: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: xxii, 498 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628373059; 1628373059; 9780884145035; 0884145034Subject(s): Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D | Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D | Maccabees -- History | Judaea (Region) -- History | Judaea (Region) -- AntiquitiesLOC classification: DS121.7 | .M52 2021Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-476) and indexes.
Contents:
The middle Maccabees : a period comes into view / Andrea M. Berlin, Paul J. Kosmin -- 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.
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 -- The Maccabean rise to power, in archaeological and historical context / Andrea M. Berlin, Paule J. Kosmin.

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

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.

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