Journal of Jewish Studies

John J. Collins Yale University, New Haven

Articles

The Place of the Fourth Sibyl in the Development of the Jewish Sibyllina
John J. Collins

Reviews

Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora by John J. Collins
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Seers, Sibyls and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism by John J. Collins
Reviewed by Susan F. Mathews

Jerusalem and the Temple in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature of the Second Temple Period by John J. Collins
Reviewed by Susan F. Mathews

Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora by John J. Collins
Reviewed by John M. G. Barclay

Chaos and the Son of Man. The Hebrew Chaoskampf Tradition in the Period 515 BCE to 200 CE by A. R. Angel
Reviewed by John J. Collins

‘You are a Priest Forever’: Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews by Eric F. Mason
Reviewed by John J. Collins

Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism by Dvora E. Weisberg
Reviewed by John J. Collins

Dualism in Qumran by Geza G. Xeravits ed.
Reviewed by John J. Collins

The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Timothy H. Lim, John J. Collins ed.
Reviewed by Geza Vermes

Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls by John J. Collins
Reviewed by Charlotte Hempel

The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism by John J. Collins, Daniel C. Harlow ed.
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea by Joan E. Taylor
Reviewed by John J. Collins

The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography by John J. Collins
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Tales of High Priests and Taxes: The Books of the Maccabees and the Judean Rebellion against Antiochus IV by Sylvie Honigman
Reviewed by John J. Collins

Gad Freudenthal CNRS, Paris

Reviews

Studies on Steinschneider: Moritz Steinschneider and the Emergence of the Science of Judaism in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Reimund Leicht, Gad Freudenthal ed.
Reviewed by Stefan C. Reif

Isaiah M. Gafni Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Reviews

Land, Center and Diaspora: Jewish Constructs in Late Antiquity by Isaiah M. Gafni
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Martin Goodman University of Oxford, Oxford

Articles

The First Jewish Revolt: Social Conflict and the Problem of Debt
Martin Goodman

A Bad Joke in Josephus
Martin Goodman

Proselytising in Rabbinic Judaism
Martin Goodman

A Note on the Qumran Sectarians, the Essenes and Josephus
Martin Goodman

A Note on Josephus, the Pharisees and Ancestral Tradition
Martin Goodman

Religious Variety and the Temple in the Late Second Temple Period and its Aftermath
Martin Goodman

In Memoriam Geza Vermes
Martin Goodman, Sacha Stern

The Disraeli family and the history of the Jews
Martin Goodman

The politics of Judaea in the 50s CE: the use of the New Testament
Martin Goodman

Reviews

The Jews of Palestine : A Political History from the Bar Kokhba War to the Arab Conquest. by Michael Avi-Yonah
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Greek Athletics and the Jews by H. A. Harris
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Origen and the Jews. Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations in Third-Century Palestine by N. R. M. de Lange
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Roman palestine 200-400: Money and Prices by Daniel Sperber
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

The `Am Ha-aretz. A Study in the Social History of the Jewish People in the Hellenistic-Roman Period : Arbeiten zur Literatur und Geschichte des Hellenistischen Judentums by Aharon Oppenheimer, I.H. Levine
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Galilee from Alexander the Great to Hadrian 323 B.C.E. to 135 C.E. A Study of Second Temple Judaism by Seán Freyne
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

The Jews in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt by Aryeh Kasher
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Jews, Greeks and Barbarians. Aspects of the Hellenization of Judaism in the pre-Christian Period. by Martin Hengel
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

The Exagoge of Ezekiel by Howard Jacobson
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Genesis and the "Jewish Antiquities" of Flavius Josephus. Biblica et Orientalia by Thomas W. Franxman
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Archaeology, the Rabbis and Early Christianity by Eric M. Meyers, James F. Strange
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Thirty Years of Archaeology in Eretz-Israel, 1948-1978 (The Thirty-Fifth Archaeological Convention) by
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora by John J. Collins
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

The Cambridge History of Judaism : Introduction; The Persian Period by W. D. Davies, L. Finkelstein ed.
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish Authors : Historians by C. R. Holladay
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Jews and Christians: Graeco-Roman Views by M. Whittaker
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Studies in the History and Traditions of Sepphoris by Stuart S. Miller
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Jewish Settlement in Judaea: After the Bar-Kochba War until the Arab Conquest, 135 C.E.-640 C.E. by Joshua Schwartz
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Capture and Liberation: A Study in the Composition of the First Book of Maccabees by Nils Martola
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

II Maccabees: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Jonathan A. Goldstein
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

The Synagogue in Late Antiquity by Lee I. Levine ed.
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Judaica: Kleine Schriften I by E. Bammel
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Galilee, Jesus and the Gospels: Literary Approaches and Historical Investigations by Sean Freyne
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Jesus within Judaism: New Light from Exciting Archaeological Discoveries by James H. Charlesworth
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Christ and the Cynics: Jesus and Other Radical Preachers in First-Century Tradition by F. Gerald Downing
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

The Social World of the First Christians by John Stambaugh, David Balch
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Judaism in the First Century by Hyam Maccoby
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Early Rabbinic Writings by Hyam Maccoby
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies by D. Barag, G. Foerster, A. Negev ed.
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees in Palestinian Society by Anthony J. Saldarini
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

The Zealots: Investigations into the Jewish Freedom Movement in the Period from Herod I until 70 A.D. by Martin Hengel, David Smith
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies by A. Ben-Tor, J. C. Greenfield, A. Malamat ed.
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Jesus and the Economic Questions of His Day by Douglas E. Oakman
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World by Alan F. Segal
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Masada II: The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963-1965 : Final Reports: The Latin and Greek Documents by H. M. Cotton, J. Geiger ed.
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Alien Wisdom: The Limits of Hellenization by Arnaldo Momigliano
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

The Rabbinic Class of Roman Palestine in Late Antiquity by Lee I. Levine
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Giudaismo e Nuovo Testamento: il caso delle decime by M. del Verme
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Emerging Judaism: Studies on the Fourth and Third Centuries B.C.E. by Michael E. Stone, David Satran ed.
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Judaea in Hellenistic and Roman Times: Historical and Archaeological Essays by Shimon Applebaum
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Jerusalem under Siege: The Collapse of the Jewish State 66-70 C.E. by Jonathan J. Price
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: A Parallel History of Their Origins and Early Development by Hershel Shanks ed.
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

The Jews Amone the Greeks and Romans: A Diaspora Sourcebook by Margaret H. Williams
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

The Jews in the Roman Empire: Legal Problems, from Herod to Justinian by Alfredo Mordechai Rabello
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

The Jews of Syria as Reflected in the Greek Inscriptions by Leah Roth-Gerson
Reviewed by Martin Goodman

Judith Hauptman Jewish Theological Seminary, New York

Reviews

Development of the Talmudic Sugya: Relationship between Tannaitic and Amoraic Sources by Judith Hauptman
Reviewed by Louis Jacobs

Rereading the Rabbis: A Woman's Voice by Judith Hauptman
Reviewed by Lisa Grushcow

Geoffrey Kahn University of Cambridge, Cambridge

Jodi Magness University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Articles

The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls by J. Magness
Reviewed by Magen Broshi

The Arch of Titus at Rome and the Fate of the God of Israel
Jodi Magness

Was Qumran a fort in the Hasmonean period?
Jodi Magness

Reviews

‘Follow the Wise’: Studies in Jewish History and Culture in Honor of Lee I. Levine by Zeev Weiss, Oded Irshai, Jodi Magness, Seth Schwartz ed.
Reviewed by Stefan C. Reif

The Archaeology of the Holy Land from the Destruction of Solomon’s Temple to the Muslim Conquest by Jodi Magness
Reviewed by H. G. M. Williamson

Tessa Rajak University of Oxford, Oxford

Articles

The Unknown God
Tessa Rajak

Moses in Ethiopia: Legend and Literature
Tessa Rajak

Josephus and the "Archaeology" of the Jews
Tessa Rajak

David Kessler 1906-1999
Tessa Rajak

Jews, Semites and their Cultures in Fergus Millar's 'Roman Near East'
Tessa Rajak

Reviews

Bar-Kokhba by Y. Yadin
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Moses in Greco-Roman Paganism by J. G. Gager
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

A Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus by K. H. Rengstorf ed.
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Die Geschichtsauffassung des Flavius Josephus im Bellum Judaicum by H. Lindner
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Zur Josephus-Forschung by A. Schalit ed.
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

The Jewish People in the First Century, (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum), Section I by S. Safrai, M. Stern, D. Flusser, W. C. Van Unnik ed.
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

The Jews under Roman Rule: From Pompey to Diocletian. by E. Mary Smallwood
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

A Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus by Karl Heinrich Rengstorf ed.
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

The Jewish People in the First Century (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum), Section I by S. Safrai, M. Stern, D. Flusser, W. C. Van Unnik ed.
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Flavius Josephus als historiker Schriftsteller : Franz Delitzsch Vorlesungen, Herausgegeben vom Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, Universität Münster by Willem Cornelius van Unnik
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

A Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus, Part 4. P Ω by K. H. Rengstorf ed.
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Josephus. The Historian and His Society by Tessa Rajak
Reviewed by Philip S. Alexander

Josephus Flavius: Historian of Eretz — Israel in the Hellenistic — Roman Period by U. Rappaport ed.
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

The Land of Israel as a Political Concept in Hasmonean Literature: Recourse to History in Second Century B.C. Claims to the Holy Land by Doron Mendels
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Jesus and the Judaism of His Time by Irving M. Zeitlin
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

The Essenes According to the Classical Sources by Geza Vermes, Martin Goodman ed.
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

The Literature of the Sages, First Part: Oral Tora Halakha, Mishna, Tosefta, Talmud, External Tractates by Shmuel Safrai ed.
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Flavius Josephus between Jerusalem and Rome: His Life, His Works and Their Importance by Per Bilde
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Holy City, Holy Places: Christian Attitudes to Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the Fourth Century by P. W. L. Walker
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East. Revised Edition by Benjamin Isaac
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Essays on the Jewish World and on Early Christianity by P. W. van der Horst
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls by Geza Vermes
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome: Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction by Tessa Rajak
Reviewed by Doron Mendels

Il Terzo Libro delle Antichità Giudaiche di Flavio Giuseppe e la Bibbia: Problemi storici e letterari by Silvia Castelli
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine by Catherine Heszer
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers by Tessa Rajak ed.
Reviewed by Judith Lieu

Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora by Tessa Rajak
Reviewed by Timothy Michael Law

The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism by John J. Collins, Daniel C. Harlow ed.
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography by John J. Collins
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria by Maren R. Niehoff
Reviewed by Tessa Rajak

David B. Ruderman University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Reviews

Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe by David B. Ruderman
Reviewed by Resianne Fontaine

Peter Schäfer Jewish Museum, Berlin

Articles

Aufbau und redaktionelle Identität der Hekhalot Zutrati
Peter Schäfer

New Testament and Hekhalot Literature: The Journey into Heaven in Paul and in Merkavah Mysticism
Peter Schäfer

Research into Rabbinic Literature: An Attempt to Define the Status Quaestionis
Peter Schäfer

Once Again the Status Quaestionis of Research in Rabbinic Literature: An Answer to Chaim Milikowsky
Peter Schäfer

Jewish Magic Literature in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
Peter Schäfer

The Magic of the Golem: The Early Development of the Golem Legend
Peter Schäfer

Reviews

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C. - A.D. 135) by Emil Schürer
Reviewed by Peter Schäfer

A History of the Mishnaic Law of Holy Things : Part One: Zebahim. Translation and Explanation , Part Two: Menahot. Translation and Explanation & Part Three: Hullin, Bekhorot. Translation and Explanation by Jacob Neusner
Reviewed by Peter Schäfer

A History of the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture, Section Three: A Study of Tractate Demai, Part One: Commentary by Richard S. Sarason
Reviewed by Peter Schäfer

Solidarität mit dem Leidenden im Judentum by Rachel Rosenzweig
Reviewed by Peter Schäfer

A History of the Mishnaic Law of Holy Things IV-VI by Jacob Neusner
Reviewed by Peter Schäfer

Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur by Peter Schäfer, Magarete Schlüter, Hans Georg von Mutius ed.
Reviewed by Philip S. Alexander

Der Bar Kokhba-Aufstand: Studien zum zweiten jüdischen Krieg gegen Rom by Peter Schäfer
Reviewed by Philip S. Alexander

Die christlich-jüdische Zwangsdisputation zu Barcelona. Nach dem hebräischen Protokoll des Moses Nachmanides by Hans-Georg von Mutius
Reviewed by Peter Schäfer

Geschichte der Juden in der Antike. Die Juden Palästinas von Alexander dem grossen bis zur arabischen Eroberung by Peter Schäfer
Reviewed by Fergus Millar

State and Society in Roman Galilee, A.D. 132-212 by Martin Goodman
Reviewed by Peter Schäfer

A History of the Mishnaic Law of Damages I-V by Jacob Neusner
Reviewed by Peter Schäfer

Übersetzung der Hekhalot-Literatur II §§81-334 by Peter Schäfer, Hans-Jürgen Becker, Klaus Herrmann, Claudia Rohrbacher-Sticker, Stefan Siebers ed.
Reviewed by Philip S. Alexander

Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World by Peter Schäfer
Reviewed by David Noy

Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah by Peter Schäfer
Reviewed by Tal Ilan

The Origins of Jewish Mysticism by Peter Schäfer
Reviewed by Carol A. Newsom

Joseph Sievers Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome

Articles

What's in a Name? Antiochus in Josephus' Bellum Judaicum
Joseph Sievers

Josephus’ rendering of Latin terminology in Greek
Joseph Sievers

Reviews

Synopsis of the Greek Sources for the Hasmonean Period: 1–2 Maccabees and Josephus, War 1 and Antiquities 12–14 by Joseph Sievers
Reviewed by Steve Taverner

Emanuel Tov Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Articles

Hebrew Biblical Manuscripts from the Judaean Desert: Their Contribution to Textual Criticism
Emanuel Tov

Qumran Corner: The Unpublished Qumran Texts from Caves 4 and 11
Emanuel Tov

Three Manuscripts (Abbreviated Texts?) of Canticles from Qumran Cave 4
Emanuel Tov

Reviews

The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8HevXIIgr) (The Seiyâl Collection I) by Emanuel Tov
Reviewed by Geza Vermes

Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible by Emanuel Tov
Reviewed by Alison G. Salvesen

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert : XII: Qumran Cave 4, VII: Genesis to Numbers by Eugene Ulrich, Frank Moore Cross, James R. Davila, Nathan Jastram, Judith E. Sanderson, Emanuel Tov
Reviewed by Edward D. Herbert

Companion Volume to the Dead Sea Scrolls Microfiche Edition by Emanuel Tov, Stephen J. Pfann ed.
Reviewed by Daniel K. Falk

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert : XIV: Qumran Cave 4, IX: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Kings by Eugene Ulrich, Frank Moore Cross, Sidnie White Crawford, Julie Ann Duncan, Patrick W. Skehan, Emanuel Tov, Julio Trebolle Barrera ed.
Reviewed by Edward D. Herbert

The Dead Sea Scrolls Fifty Years after their Discovery—Proceedings of the Jerusalem Congress, July 20–25, 1997 by Lawrence H. Schiffman, Emanuel Tov, James Vanderkam ed.
Reviewed by Geza Vermes

Emanuel: Studies in Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and Dead Sea Scrolls in Honor of Emanuel Tov by Shalom M. Paul, Robert A. Kraft, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Weston W. Fields ed.
Reviewed by Alison G. Salvesen

The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library by Emanuel Tov ed.
Reviewed by Charlotte Hempel

Hebrew Bible, Greek Bible, and Qumran: Collected Essays by Emanuel Tov
Reviewed by Raija Sollamo

Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert by Emanuel Tov
Reviewed by Geza Vermes