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Not According To Rule: Women, The Dead Sea Scrolls And Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Until very recently, the juxtaposition of the words “women,” “Dead Sea Scrolls” and “Qumran” in the same title would have seemed like an oxymoron. From the beginning of Dead Sea Scrolls research, the people who lived at Qumran and stored the manuscripts in the eleven surrounding caves were identified with the ancient Jewish sect of the Essenes. This identification was based on the descriptions of the Essenes provided by the ancient writers Josephus, Philo and Pliny the Elder. Philo and Pliny are unequivocal in their description of the Essenes as an all-male, celibate group. Josephus also focuses his description of …

Jerusalem, Qiryal Ha’Leom, A-3912/2003, Keren Ben-Or

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In June 2003, a trial excavation was conducted in Qiryat Ha’Leom, at the Binyene Ha-Umma site in Jerusalem (map ref. 21930/63245), in an area designated for demolition prior to widening of the road. The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, was directed by K. Ben-Or, with the assistance of A. Hajian (surveying and drafting), R. Abu Khalf (administration) and A. Lidsky (pottery drawing).

Ha-Tayassim Road, Tel Aviv, A-3764/2002, A-4683/2003, Yoav Arbel

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In 2002 and 2003, excavations were conducted at a 5.5 dunams plot between Ha-Tayassim Road and Tslilei Hanina Street (Permit Nos. A-3764, A-4683; map ref. 182517-58/661650-81), under the direction of Giora Parnos. The site is located on a natural hill approximately 30 meters above sea level, on the third kurkar ridge of the central coastal plain. It is surrounded by fertile soil and lies near the main road connecting Jaffa and Jerusalem.

Gerard David's Nativity Triptych: Landscape As A Genre And A Tool For Spiritual Pilgrimage, Laurel Eddleman

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

This work by Gerard David, painted around 1510 to 1515, represents a style built predominantly upon the foundation of his predecessors, while hinting in certain ways to the tastes and styles of the near future. Specific details of style show influence of artists before David such as Jan Van Eyck, Rogier Van der Weyden, Geertgen tot sin Jans, Hugo Van der Goes, and Hans Memlinc. His innovation is exemplified on the exterior panels, which introduce landscape as a genre and incorporate the spiritual theme of pilgrimage between the exterior and interior panels. Stylistically, the Nativity shows a look toward the …

Poetics Before Plato: Interpretation And Authority In Early Greek Theories Of Poetry, Grace M. Ledbetter

Classics Faculty Works

Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view of poetry and the first to connect the Socratic view of poetry with earlier literary tradition.

The Translation Memoirs: A Meditative Exploration Of Translation Theory, Phillip M. Sauerbeck

Kaleidoscope

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At The Seizure Of The Moon: The Absence Of The Moon In The Mithras Liturgy, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Aristophanes In Philadelphia: The "Acharnians" Of 1886, Lee Pearcy

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Traditions About Miriam In The Qumran Scrolls, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The collection of manuscripts recovered from the caves surrounding Khirbet Qumran, popularly known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, contains a wealth of previously unknown literary compositions from the period of the Second Temple, many adding to our knowledge of the traditions surrounding these familiar biblical characters. It is especially pertinent, given the theme of this volume, to note that there is new material concerning female biblical characters to be gleaned from the fragmentary remains of the Qumran collection. This paper focuses on two or three Qumran texts that mention the biblical character Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron, who, …

Sozomen, Barbarians, And Early Byzantine Historiography, Walter Stevenson

Classical Studies Faculty Publications

Sozomen, writing in mid-fifth century Constantinople, stands out as an exception proving the rule in Byzantine historiography. He is the first and last Christian Byzantine historian to make a serious effort at ethnography.⁵ When we consider how quickly Christianity was spreading outside the boundaries of the eastern Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries it is striking how little mention barbarians and their evangelization earn in the early ecclesiastical histories.⁶ To illustrate this point I will begin by showing that Sozomen’s predecessors, Eusebius, Rufinus, and Socrates, de-emphasized the natural interest that the historical genre had expressed in ethnography, …

Plurality Of Discourses In Euripides’ Ion: Euripides As Thinker And Dramatist, Katerina Zacharia

Classics and Archaeology Faculty Works

This paper discusses a general problem in Euripidean poetics starting from a feature of the Ion. In that play there is a curious juxtaposition of contrasting pairs that run through the very core of the play. Euripides has arranged the plot-construction in a series of doublets, which, I argue, express the very substance of the play itself, as is shown by the fact that, beyond these individual structural repetitions, the thematic of the play as a whole is characterized by doubling and repetition at every level. Also, more profoundly, this arrangement in doublets is a way of representing reality; …

Review Of The Dead Sea Scrolls, Fifty Years After Their Discovery: Proceedings Of The Jerusalem Congress, July 20–25, 1997, Edited By Lawrence H. Schiffman, Emanuel Tov, And James C. Vanderkam; Executive Editor Galen Marquis, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Occasionally a volume appears that is almost impossible to review, whether because the material it presents is completely new, the subject matter is so esoteric, or the material is so eclectic that it cannot be absorbed in a single review. The latter is the case with the present volume, which contains over 100 articles by scholars from the United States, Israel, Canada, and Europe. The subject matter is the finds from the Judaean Desert—not only the written remains but also the material, biological, and architectural remains as well. The written remains include the Qumran scrolls (popularly referred to as the …

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Retrospective And Prospective, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The Dead Sea Scrolls—in the popular imagination, the very name conjures up scandal, intrigue and mystery. Tales of illicit excavations, clandestine purchases, and midnight trips to Beirut, all with the sound of gunfire crackling in the background, abound in the lore of the Scrolls and the scholars associated with them. While visions of Roland de Vaux as a French Indiana Jones may be the product of an overheated imagination, the actual story of the discovery of the Scrolls is nevertheless an exciting one in the annals of archaeology.

To say that the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has revolutionized …

Early Greek Lyric Poetry: The Cry Of The Self, Gemino Abad

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

It was the ancient Greeks who in lyric poetry were the first really to discover what we know today and take for granted as the self. It is difficult for us now to imagine how that discovery must have felt like a great revelation.

Iliad And Odyssey: Areté And Timé, Gemino Abad

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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Deserted Villages: From The Ancient To The Medieval Fayyum, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article, originally delivered as a paper at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, is a development of twin papers given by Roger Bagnall and me at the xxe Congres International des Etudes Byzantines in Paris, 19-25 August 2001, as part of a "Table ronde" on villages in the Byzantine world. On that occasion, we were responsible for Egyptian villages, he for villages as evidenced (mainly) in the Greek papyri, I for the medieval period based on al-Nabulsi's description of Egypt's Fayyum Province, Ta 'rikh al-Fayyiim (c. 1245 A.D.). Thematically, we had agreed to explore such topics …