Conventionally, the history of the rabbinic movement has been told as a distinctly intra-Jewish development, a response to the gaping need left by the tragic destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70
Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture, The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, no. 5Essays on the architecture, art, religious institutions, cemet
The 15 papers collected in this volume are from an April 2005 conference at the University of Maryland. They cover Caesarea Palaestinae in transition; devastation and survival during the Persian invas
Scholars mostly from US universities explore how assumptions over a century old continue to inform studies of antiquity, particularly the peculiar place of Jews, Judaism, and Jewish texts in the 19th-
