Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba

Based on an interdisciplinary conference held in Münster, this volume discusses the interrelation between political change and Jewish identity in the three centuries between the Maccabean and the Bar Kokhba revolt (168 BCE - 135 CE).

Benedikt Eckhardt, Introduction: Yet Another Book on Jewish Identity in Antiquity; David Goodblatt, Varieties of Identity in Late Second Temple Judah (200 B.C.E.-135 C.E.); Arie van der Kooij. The Claim of Maccabean Leadership and the Use of Scripture; Jodi Magness, Toilet Practices, Purity Concerns, and Sectarianism in the Late Second Temple Period; Hannah Harrington, Identity and Alterity in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Benedikt Eckhardt, "An Idumean, that is, a Half-Jew." Hasmoneans and Herodians Between Ancestry and Merit; Adam Kolman Marshak, Rise of the Idumeans: Ethnicity and Politics in Herod's Judea; Linda-Marie Gunther; Die Hasmonaerin Alexandra-Integrationsfigur fur den Widerstand gegen den neuen Konig Herodes?; Julia Wilker, "God is with Italy now." Pro-Roman Jews and the Jewish Revolt; Clemens Leonhard, "Herod's Days" and the Development of Jewish and Christian Festivals; Gunter Stemberger, Forbidden Gentile Food in Early Rabbinic Writings; Korbinian Spann, The Meaning of Circumcision for Strangers in Rabbinic Literature;