Ra'anan Boustan/David Frankfurter/Annette Yoshiko Reed: Tours by the Light of Martha Himmelfarb
I. Rethinking Second Temple Judaism
Annette Yoshiko Reed : Hellenistic Judaism beyond Judaism and Hellenism - Benjamin G. Wright : Ben Sira and Cat Stevens: Raising Sons to Stand in the River of Tradition - Steven Fraade : Leadership in the Damascus Document and Related Texts: A Tale of Two Titles - Aryeh Amihay : Social Distancing: Between Sectarianism and Unity in Second Temple Judaism
II. At the Intersections of Judaism and Christianity
John Marshall : Jewish? Judean? Naming John's Apocalypse - Elaine Pagels : "The Innumerable Multitude": Converted or Coerced? - Abraham Jacob Berkovitz : On Mechanics and Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis: Revelation, Gentiles, and Psalm 29 in Tannaitic Midrash - Peter Schäfer : O Felix Culpa: Curse and Blessing of the Expulsion from Paradise - Hayim Lapin : Amulo of Lyon, the Two Messiahs, and the Dissemination of Rabbinic Culture - William Adler : "Should We Pay Heed to Those Who Say that Jesus was Appointed as a Priest by the Jews?": Michael Glycas's Refutation of the "Secret Codex" in Tiberias
III. Priesthoods and Liturgies in Transformation
Richard Bauckham : Priests and Levites in the Jerusalem Necropolis - Michael D. Swartz : Priests and Strangers: The Role of the Laity in Yerushalmi Yoma - Ophir Münz-Manor : Singing Rabbis? Reconsidering the Relationships between Rabbinic Literature and Piyyut - Mika Ahuvia : A Woman of Valor in the Late Antique Synagogue - David Frankfurter : Heavenly Liturgy and Its Materialization in Early Coptic Magical Texts
IV. Material Texts
Annemarie Luijendijk : "Embalm Them with Cedar Oil": Maintenance of Manuscripts with Oil of Cedar - Nicola Denzey Lewis : Reconsidering the Logic of Nag Hammadi's Codex II - John Reeves : 'Otot Ha-Mashiah (Signs of the Messiah) According to Ms. Oxford Bodl. Or. 135: A Transcription and Translation
V. Apocalyptic Afterlives
Elena Dugan : On Late Ancient Readers of 1 Enoch: Suspected, Suspicious, and Supposed - James Vanderkam : Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer and the Book of Jubilees - Sarit Kattan Gribetz : The Abraham Discords: Eschatology and Ancestry in Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer's Binding of Isaac - David Stern : An Apocalyptic Scroll - Ra'anan Boustan : Hekhalot Literature, Scholastic Ritual, and Intercessory Prayer in Midrash Mishle - Gideon Bohak : Divination and Eschatology in Late Antique Judaism
