Follow the Wise: Studies in Jewish History and Culture in Honor of Lee I. Levine

Part 1: Hellenism, Christianity, and Judaism
Albert I. Baumgarten: Hellenism and Judaism before and after World War II: Two Case Studies—A. D. Momigliano and E. J. Bickerman
Shaye J. D. Cohen: The Name of the Ruse: The Toss of a Ring to Save Life and Honor
Sean Freyne: Jesus and the Galilean Am ha-Aretz: A Reconsideration of an Old Problem
Erich S. Gruen: Hellenism and Judaism: Fluid Boundaries
Pieter W. van der Horst: Porphyry on Judaism: Some Observations
Hillel I. Newman: The Bishops of Sepphoris: Christianity and Synagogue Iconography in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries
E. P. Sanders: The Humanistic Evaluation of Religion

Part 2: Art and Archaeology: Jerusalem and Galilee
David Amit and Yonatan Adler: The Observance of Ritual Purity after 70 C.E.: A Reevaluation of the Evidence in Light of Recent Archaeological Discoveries
Dan Barag: The Tomb of Jason Reconsidered
Amos Kloner and Sherry Whetstone: The Hippo-Stadium/ Amphitheater in Jerusalem
Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron: Aramaic Ostraca of the Late Second Temple Period from a Farmhouse North of Jerusalem
Elisheva Revel-Neher: An “Encore” on the Bar Kochba Tetradrachm: A Re-vision of Interpretation
Zeev Weiss: Burial Practices in Beth Sheˁarim and the Question of Dating the Patriarchal Necropolis

Part 3: The Rabbis
Aaron Demsky: Abbaye’s Family Origins: A Study in Rabbinic Genealogy
Richard Kalmin: The Miracle of the Septuagint in Ancient Rabbinic and Christian Literature
Hayim Lapin: The Rabbinic Class Revisited: Rabbis as Judges in Later Roman Palestine
David Levine: Rabbis, Preachers, and Aggadists: An Aspect of Jewish Culture in Third- and Fourth-Century Palestine
Aharon Oppenheimer: Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and Babylonia: Ties and Tensions
Adiel Schremer: The Religious Orientation of Non-Rabbis in Second-Century Palestine: A Rabbinic Perspective
Daniel R. Schwartz: Martyrdom, the Middle Way, and Mediocrity (Genesis Rabbah 82:8)
Joshua Schwartz: Sinai—Mountain and Desert: The Desert Geography and Theology of the Rabbis and Desert Fathers
Seth Schwartz: Rabbinic and Roman Honor and Deference: Y. Berakot 5.1, 9a, and Y. Bikkurim 3.3, 65c-d

Part 4: The Ancient Synagogue
Rachel Hachlili: The Dura-Europos Synagogue Wall Paintings: A Question of Origin and Interpretation
Jodi Magness: Priests and Purity in the Dura-Europos Synagogue
Eric M. Meyers: The Problem of the Scarcity of Synagogues from 70 to ca. 250 C.E.: The Case of Synagogue 1 at Nabratein (2nd—3rd Century C.E.)
Leonard V. Rutgers: The Synagogue as Foe in Early Christian Literature

Hebrew Section

Part 1: Sages and Patriarchs
Isaiah Gafni: Epistles of the Patriarchs in Talmudic Literature
Moshe David Herr: On Aggadic Midrashim: Formation, Editing, Survival

Part 2: Archaeology, Art, and Historical Geography
Moth Arad: Gader, Migdal Gader, Hammat Gader: Historical and Geographical Considerations in Interpreting a Talmudic Sugya in ˁErubin
Rina Talgam: The Zodiac and Helios in the Synagogue: Between Paganism and Christianity
Ehud Netzer: Was King Herod Indeed a Megalomaniac? In Light of Kasher and Witztum’s New Book, King Herod: A Persecuted Persecutor
Oded Irshai: Is “Bezer in the Wilderness” (Deut 4:43) Bozrah (Bostra, Roman Arabia)? On the Intricacies of a Rabbinic Tradition