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More About This Title Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit
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In Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit Jodi Magness unearths âfootprintsâ buried in both archaeological and literary evidence to shed new light on Jewish daily life in Palestine from the mid-first century b.c.e. to 70 c.e. â the time and place of Jesusâ life and ministry.
Magness analyzes recent archaeological discoveries from such sites as Qumran and Masada together with a host of period texts, including the New Testament, the works of Josephus, and rabbinic teachings. Layering all these sources together, she reconstructs in detail a fascinating variety of everyday activities â dining customs, Sabbath observance, fasting, toilet habits, burial customs, and more.
Magness analyzes recent archaeological discoveries from such sites as Qumran and Masada together with a host of period texts, including the New Testament, the works of Josephus, and rabbinic teachings. Layering all these sources together, she reconstructs in detail a fascinating variety of everyday activities â dining customs, Sabbath observance, fasting, toilet habits, burial customs, and more.
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Jodi Magness is Kenan Distinguished Professor forTeachingExcellence in Early Judaism at the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to Qumran and the DeadSea Scrolls, her research interests include ancientpottery, ancient synagogues, and the Roman army in theEast, and she has published and lectured extensively onthese subjects. She has participated in twenty differentexcavations in Israel and Greece, including serving ascodirector of the 1995 excavations in the Roman siegeworksat Masada. Her works include the award-winning booksThe Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead SeaScrollsand The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement inPalestine.
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Fergus Millar
— Oriental Institute, Oxford
“Jodi Magness brings literary evidence from both Jewish and New Testament writings together with extensive archaeological material to produce a literally ‘down to earth’ picture of the conditions and customs of daily life in the late Second Temple period. Essential reading for all who are interested in that period.”
Sidnie White Crawford
— University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“A superb handbook on Jewish daily life in the late Second Temple period. Magness demonstrates how texts and archaeology, with careful scholarship, can illuminate each other. This book will be valuable for undergraduates, graduate students, and all scholars of the period for a long time to come.”
Lawrence H. Schiffman
— New York University
“Magness’s originality and her mastery of the sources make this a major contribution to our field.”
Exploring Our Matrix
“For anyone interested in the New Testament or its historical and cultural context, this is an important and very useful volume.”
— Oriental Institute, Oxford
“Jodi Magness brings literary evidence from both Jewish and New Testament writings together with extensive archaeological material to produce a literally ‘down to earth’ picture of the conditions and customs of daily life in the late Second Temple period. Essential reading for all who are interested in that period.”
Sidnie White Crawford
— University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“A superb handbook on Jewish daily life in the late Second Temple period. Magness demonstrates how texts and archaeology, with careful scholarship, can illuminate each other. This book will be valuable for undergraduates, graduate students, and all scholars of the period for a long time to come.”
Lawrence H. Schiffman
— New York University
“Magness’s originality and her mastery of the sources make this a major contribution to our field.”
Exploring Our Matrix
“For anyone interested in the New Testament or its historical and cultural context, this is an important and very useful volume.”
