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Nava Panitz-Cohen, “‘Off the Wall’: Wall Brackets and Cypriots in Iron Age I Israel,” in Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji, eds., “I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times”: Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar, 2 vols. (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006), vol. 2, pp. 613–636.
See Kletter et al., Yavneh I.
Raz Kletter, Irit Ziffer and Wolfgang Zwickel, Yavneh I—The Excavation of the ‘Temple Hill’ Repository Pit and the Cult Stands (Fribourg: Academic Press and Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupert, 2010).
The story is told in four versions: B. Gittin 56b. See also Avot de-Rabbi Nathan, Version 1, 4, 22–24; Avot de-Rabbi Nathan, Version 2, 6, 19; Lamentations Rabbah 1:5, no. 31. The four different versions are conveniently available in Jacob Neusner, Development of a Legend (Leiden: Brill, 1970).
For an example of rabbinic traces in Paul’s preaching, see Romans 5:12–21, as recently analyzed by Menahem Kister, “Romans 5:12–21 Against the Background of Torah-Theology and Hebrew Usage,” Harvard Theological Review, vol. 100 (2007), pp. 391–424.
The scholarship in this article is based on a book in German and two articles in English by my colleague Arye Edrei (from the faculty of law at Tel Aviv University) and myself, as follows: Doron Mendels and Arye Edrei, Zweierlei Diaspora. Zur Spaltung der antiken jüdischen Welt (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010); Arye Edrei and Doron Mendels, “A Split Jewish Diaspora: Its Dramatic Consequences,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, vol. 16, no. 2 (2007), pp.
Josephus, Antiquities 16.13.
David Jacobson, “Has Herod’s Place of Burial Been Found?” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 139, no. 3 (2007), pp. 147–148.
Josephus, Antiquities 17.174–175 and The Jewish War 1.659.
Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 14.352–360.
