Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mt. Gerizim and Samaria between Antiochus III and Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Biographical note
Jan Dušek, Ph.D. (2005) in History and Archaeology of Ancient Worlds, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, works as researcher at the Centre for Biblical Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Charles University in Prague. He has published on the history of Samaria including Les manuscrits araméens du Wadi Daliyeh et la Samarie vers 450-332 av. J.-C. (Brill, 2007).
Readership
All those interested in the history of Palestine in the Hellenistic period, Aramaic and Hebrew epigraphy, Hebrew Bible and the history of religions.
Table of contents
Introduction
I. Scripts of the inscriptions from Mt. Gerizim
1. Temple-city on Mt. Gerizim
2. Scripts used on Mt. Gerizim
3. Aramaic cursive script
4. Aramaic monumental script
5. Mixed script
6. Spelling with dalet or zayin
7. Ruling of Aramaic inscriptions
8. Mistakes and unusual spelling
9. Paleo-Hebrew fragments
10. Conclusion
II. Identity
1. Samaria in the Hellenistic period
2. Identity of worshippers of Yahweh in Samaria
3. Religious institutions in Hellenistic Samaria
4. Texts used by the Samarian Yahwists: Pentateuch
5. Samarian Yahwists as foreigners in the Jewish society
6. Date and circumstances of the exclusion: the case of Sidonians in Shechem
7. Conclusion
III. Southern Levant between Antiochus III and Antiochus IV Epiphanes
1. Ant. 12.129-236: Seleucids, Ptolemies and Tobiads
2. Chronology of Josephus in Ant. 12.129-236
3. Seleucid and Ptolemaic kings in Ant. 12.129-236
4. The dotal agreement (Ant. 12.154-155)
5. The Tobiads
6. High-priests in Jerusalem
7. Conclusion
General Conclusion
Appendix I: Aramaic script from Mt. Gerizim
Appendix II
1. Aramaic cursive inscriptions from 3rd to 1st centuries BCE
2. Aramaic inscriptions in monumental style
Bibliography
I. Scripts of the inscriptions from Mt. Gerizim
1. Temple-city on Mt. Gerizim
2. Scripts used on Mt. Gerizim
3. Aramaic cursive script
4. Aramaic monumental script
5. Mixed script
6. Spelling with dalet or zayin
7. Ruling of Aramaic inscriptions
8. Mistakes and unusual spelling
9. Paleo-Hebrew fragments
10. Conclusion
II. Identity
1. Samaria in the Hellenistic period
2. Identity of worshippers of Yahweh in Samaria
3. Religious institutions in Hellenistic Samaria
4. Texts used by the Samarian Yahwists: Pentateuch
5. Samarian Yahwists as foreigners in the Jewish society
6. Date and circumstances of the exclusion: the case of Sidonians in Shechem
7. Conclusion
III. Southern Levant between Antiochus III and Antiochus IV Epiphanes
1. Ant. 12.129-236: Seleucids, Ptolemies and Tobiads
2. Chronology of Josephus in Ant. 12.129-236
3. Seleucid and Ptolemaic kings in Ant. 12.129-236
4. The dotal agreement (Ant. 12.154-155)
5. The Tobiads
6. High-priests in Jerusalem
7. Conclusion
General Conclusion
Appendix I: Aramaic script from Mt. Gerizim
Appendix II
1. Aramaic cursive inscriptions from 3rd to 1st centuries BCE
2. Aramaic inscriptions in monumental style
Bibliography
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