Convener: Martine Goodman
Tuesdays at 2.15pm, Oriental Institute
Professor Martin Goodman (Oriental Institute)
Reconstructing Ancient Judaism from the Dead Sea Scrolls: the sectarians and the Temple in Jerusalem
Dr Esti Eshel (Bar-Ilan)
A marriage contract from Maresha (176BCE) and the Jewish ketubba
Professor Hanan Eshel (Bar-Ilan)
The value of economic documents for understanding the Bar Kokhba war
Dr Gaia Lembi (UCL)
Josephus on John Hyrcanus I
Dr Eyal Ben-Eliyahu (Oriental Institute)
Walled cities since the days of Joshua the son of Nun and the Roman pomerium
Dr Joan Taylor (UCL)
Dio Chrysostom on the Essenes
Dr Yehuda Cohn (Wolfson)
Were tefillin phylacteries?
Dr Vered Noam (Tel Aviv)
The dual strategy of rabbinic purity legislation
All Welcome