SourcesandInterpretationinAncientJudaism Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums FoundingEditor MartinHengel†(Tübingen) ExecutiveEditors CilliersBreytenbach(Berlin) MartinGoodman(Oxford) EditorialBoard LutzDoering(Münster)–TalIlan(Berlin)–JudithLieu(Cambridge) TessaRajak(Reading/Oxford)–DanielR.Schwartz(Jerusalem) SethSchwartz(NewYork)–ChristianeZimmermann(Kiel) volume 104 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/ajec TalIlan Photograph courtesy of Matthew Morgenstern Sources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism StudiesforTalIlanatSixty Editedby MeronM.Piotrkowski GeoffreyHerman SaskiaDönitz LEIDEN | BOSTON LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Piotrkowski,MeronM.,editor.|Dönitz,Saskia,1973-editor.|Herman, Geoffrey,editor.|Ilan,Ṭal,honoree. Title:SourcesandinterpretationinancientJudaism:studiesforTalIlanatsixty/ editedbyMeronM.Piotrkowski,SaskiaDönitz,GeoffreyHerman. Description:Leiden;Boston:Brill,[2018]|Series:AncientJudaismandEarly Christianity=ArbeitenzurGeschichtedesantikenJudentumsunddes Urchristentums,ISSN1871-6636;volume104|Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2018011110(print)|LCCN2018021645(ebook)| ISBN9789004366985(E-book)|ISBN9789004366411(hardback:alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:Judaism–History–Post-exilicperiod,586B.C.-210A.D.|Judaism– History–Talmudicperiod,10-425.|Jews–History–586B.C.-70A.D.| Jews–History–70-638. Classification:LCC BM176(ebook)|LCC BM176.S682018(print)| DDC296.1–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018011110 TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill‑typeface. ISSN1871-6636 ISBN978-90-04-36641-1(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-36698-5(e-book) Copyright2018byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopi, BrillSenseandHoteiPublishing. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNVprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. Contents PrefaceandAcknowledgements xi Abbreviations xii NotesonContributors xv TabulaGratulatoria xx Introduction 1 Part 1 SecondTempleLiteratureandHistory 1 ChasingAwayLionsandWeaving:ThelongueduréeofTalmudic GenderIcons 11 YosefGarfinkel 2 Malthace,Archelaus,andHerodAntipas:BetweenGenealogy andTypology 32 DanielR.Schwartz 3 ANewPerspectiveonTwoJewishQueensintheSecondTemple Period:AlexandraofJudaeaandHeleneofAdiabene 41 EtkaLiebowitz 4 WasHillelaPharisee? 66 CanaWerman Part 2 TheJewsandthePapyri 5 Ezechiel33,21–39,29:AnmerkungenzumProfilderSinneinheit indernicht-masoretischenTextfassung(Papyrus967)undzu Veränderungendurchproto-masoretischeRedaktoren 109 KarinFinsterbusch 6 TheThirdCenturyBCE:NewLightonEgyptianJewishHistory fromthePapyri 130 NoahHacham viii contents 7 ‘LiteraryJews:’TheJewishCommunityofOxyrhynchusinLight ofNon-documentaryTextsonPapyrus 143 MeronM.Piotrkowski 8 ShabtaiinEgypt:CulturalInteractionbetweenJewsandEgyptians underthePtolemies 174 ZsuzsannaSzántó Part 3 RabbinicLiterature 9 BabyloniaofPureLineage:NotesonBabylonianJewish Toponymy 191 GeoffreyHerman 10 ASpindleforCaesar’sDaughter 229 ReuvenKiperwasser 11 RabbinicForensics:DistinguishingEggWhitefromSemeninb.Giṭṭin 57a 252 JudithR.Baskin 12 RabbinicImagesofSecondTempleDiasporasandTheirLinks withJudaea:HistoryorFantasy? 268 IsaiahGafni 13 AreParablesanInterpretation? 289 RonitNikolsky 14 WhenaManSellsHisDaughterasanהמא:Theהירבעההמאasm. Qiddushin’sRoleModelforBecomingaWife 316 JudithvonBresinsky 15 ClassroomEncounters—AnAppreciation 348 ChristianeHannahTzuberi ListofPublicationsofProf.TalIlan 353 IndexofAncientSources 366 IndexofBiblicalSources 373 contents ix IndexofRabbinicSources 376 IndexofNames 382 IndexofPlaces 386