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Andrea Berlin - Paul J. Kosmin (eds.), The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom (Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2021).

Abstract

"This collection of essays lays out the charged, complicated beginning of an independent Jewish state founded by the Maccabees in the second century BCE. Contributors offer focused, interdisciplinary analyses of the archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and textual evidence to create a holistic view of Hasmonean history that acknowledges political developments and evolving social responses to continuous militarized conflict involving the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt and the Seleucids of Syria"--Publisher description.

Contents

The middle Maccabees : a period comes into view / Andrea M. Berlin, Paul J. Kosmin -- Part 1. Material Evidence : The Archaelolgoy of the Regions. The regions and material evidence : overview / Andrea M. Berlin -- Jerusalem in the early Hellenistic period : new evidence for its nature and location / Yiftah Shalev, Efrat Bocher, Helena Roth, Débora Sandhaus, Nitsan Shalom, Yuval Gadot -- Hellenistic military architecture from the Givʻati parking lot excavations, Jerusalem / Ayala Zilberstein -- Settlement and history of the Northern Judean Hills and Southern Samaria during the early Hasmonean period / Dvir Raviv -- Settlements and borders in the Shephelah from the fourth to the first centuries BCE / Débora Sandhaus -- Settlement in the Southern Coastal Plain ("Philistia") during the early Hellenistic periods (third through mid-second centuries BCE) / Uzi ʻAd -- Go West : archaeological evidence for Hasmonean expansion toward the Mediterranean Coast / Yehiel Zelinger -- Galilee in the second century BCE : material culture and ethnic identity / Uzi Leibner -- The upper Galilee and the Northern Coast / Andrea M. Berlin -- The Hasmonean settlement in Galilee : a numismatic perspective / Danny Syon -- Contribution of the Rhodian Eponyms amphora stamps tot eh history of the Maccabees : the data / Gerald Finkielsztejn -- John Hyrcanus I's first autonomous coins / Donald T. Ariel. -- Part 2. The Wider Stage : A Small State in a Great Power World. Overview : The middle Maccabees in context / Paul J. Kosmin -- Before the spark ignites the fire : structural instabilities in Southern Syria / Sylvie Honigman -- Seleucid throne wars : resilience and disintegrtation of the greatest successor kingdom from Demetrius I to Antiochus VII / Altay Coşkun -- The machinations of the Ptolemaic state in its relationship with Judea (160-104 BCE) / Christelle Fischer-Bovet -- Silver coinage in Seleucid Coele Syria and Phoenicia : implications for the history of Juday / Catharine Lorber -- Roman hegemony and the Hasmoneans : construction of empire / Duncan E. MacRae -- PART 3. Voices : Textual Responses to the Middle Maccabees. Reading the middle Maccabees / Benedikt Eckhardt -- Competitors to middle Maccabees : evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls / Jutta Jokiranta -- Jewish voices on Rome and Roman imperialism / Erich S. Gruen -- Conclusion : The Maccabean rise to power, in archaeological and historical context / Andrea M. Berlin, Paule J. Kosmin.

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