Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean

This volume celebrates Jodi Magness’s long and illustrious career as a scholar of archaeology, early Judaism, and the ancient Mediterranean world. It brings together a series of studies on history, archaeology, and society in Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Palestine, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient synagogues, written by her colleagues, students, and friends. The collected essays reflect the extraordinary range of historical and archaeological issues which Magness has elucidated through her outstanding work, as well as make significant contributions to their respective fields. Some articles publish archaeological data for the first time, others re-evaluate traditional assumptions within new methodological or theoretical frameworks, and others proffer innovative interpretations of old data.

Dennis Mizzi, DPhil (2009), University of Oxford, is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew and Ancient Judaism at the University of Malta. He is a trained archaeologist, with a focus on the material culture of Judaism in the Roman–Byzantine periods, and has published widely on the archaeology of Qumran.

Tine Rassalle, PhD (2021), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is Curator at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a trained archaeologist, with a focus on the material culture of ancient Judaism and early Christianity in the ancient Near East.

Matthew J. Grey, PhD (2011), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a Professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on the history and archaeology of Roman Palestine, with a particular interest in ancient synagogues, the material culture of daily life, and the emergence of the Jesus movement within its Jewish context.