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Jesus the "Material Jew" -- Temple and Temple Mount in the Book of Acts: Early Christian Activity, Topography and Halachah -- Peter and Ben Stada in Lydda -- How Jewish to be Jewish? Self-Identity and Jewish Christians in First Century CE Palestine -- Methodological Remarks on "Jewish" Identity: Jews, Jewish Christians and Prolegomena on Pauline Judaism -- Teaching Jesus in a Halakhic Jewish Setting in Israel: Kosher, Treif or Pareve? -- When Rabbi Eliezer was Arrested for Heresy -- The Encaenia of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, The Temple of Solomon and the Jews -- Gallus, Julian and Anti-Christian Polemic in Pesikta Rabbati -- Treading the Grapes of Wrath: The Wine Press in Ancient Jewish and Christian Tradition -- A Holy People in the Winepress: Treading the Grapes and Holiness -- The Book's the Thing: Roll versus Codex and the Marketing of Judaism and Christianity -- Material Culture in the Land of Israel: Monks and Rabbis on Clothing and Dress in the Byzantine Period -- John the Baptist, the Wilderness and the Samaritan Mission -- "The Lord's Field": Galgala, Jericho and Jerusalem and the Polemics of the Byzantine Period -- The Deserts of Palestine: Wilderness in the Thought of the Rabbis and the Desert Fathers: -- Geographic Reality and the Crisscrossing of Motifs -- Sinai - Mountain and Desert: The Desert Geography and Theology of the Rabbis and Desert Fathers -- The Temple in Jerusalem: Birah and Baris in Archaeology and Literature -- Once More on the Nicanor Gate -- Are the "Halachic Temple Mount" and the "Outer Court" of Josephus One and the Same? -- Notes on the Virtual Reconstruction of the Herodian Period Temple and Courtyards -- Prolegomena on a New Reconstruction of the Herodian Temple: Virtual Reality and Josephus -- The Temple Cult Without the Sages: Prolegomena on the Description of the Second Temple Period Cult According to the Sources of the Second Temple Period -- Sacrifice without the Rabbis: Ritual and Sacrifice in the Second Temple Period According to Contemporary Sources -- To Stand. Perhaps To Sit: Sitting and Standing in the Azarah -- On Birds, Rabbis and Skin Disease -- Bar Qatros and the Priestly Families of Jerusalem. ISBN 9783034335881