'Atiqot 113 (2023) (open access)

A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL 'ATIQOT focuses on "the archaeology of purity." TOC:

• Front Matter & Editorial Atiqot 113
Keywords: Front Matter & Editorial

• A First-Century BCE Chalk-Vessel Assemblage from Har Ḥoma, Jerusalem, and the Beginning of the Chalk-Vessel Industry (pp. 1–27)
Dennis Mizzi, Ayala Zilberstein, Débora Sandhaus, Rina Avner and Shua Kisilevitz
Keywords: Chalk vessels, chalk-quarry workshops, Jewish ritual purity, late Second Temple period, Har Ḥoma, Jerusalem

• Ritual Purification and Bathing: The Location and Function of Siloam Pool and Solomon’s Pool in Second Temple Period Jerusalem (pp. 29–44)
Nahshon Szanton
Keywords: purification, bathing, First Wall, Silwan Pool, Siloam Pool, Birkat el-Ḥamra, Pool of Solomon, Tyropoeon Valley

• Jewish Pilgrimage, Temple Sacrifices and ‘Disposable’ Cooking Pots (pp. 45–58)
Omri Abadi
Keywords: Second Temple period, Jerusalem, pilgrimage, cooking-pot production, ritual purity, ceremonial feasting

• Late Roman–Byzantine-Period Ritual Baths at Ḥorbat Susya in Daroma (pp. 59–96)
Yuval Baruch and Ronny Reich
Keywords: purity, ritual bath, miqweh, Daroma, synagogue, Jewish village, Late Roman period, Byzantine period, priest, oil press, winepress

• Archaeology, Purity and Society: Some Methodological Reflections (pp. 97–113)
Eyal Regev
Keywords: Purity, ritual baths, stone vessels, social archaeology, ethnicity, individualism

• The Rise and Fall of ‘Purity Culture’ in the Land of Israel: A Historic Perspective (pp. 115–157)
Zeev Safrai
Keywords: Purity, social development, miqweh, priests, Rabbis, sages, sects

• Jewish Ritual Immersion in the Longue Durée: From Earliest Manifestations until Today (159–181)
Yonatan Adler
Keywords: Judaism, ritual purity, ritual immersion, ritual immersion pools, ritual baths

• A Second-Temple Period Chalk Quarry and Vessel- Production Cave Complex on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem (pp. 185–274)
Jon Seligman, David Amit and Irina Zilberbod
Keywords: Jewish, Halakha, purity, chalk vessel industry, workshop, quarry, technology, quantification

• The Pottery Assemblage from the Mount Scopus Chalk-Vessel Production Cave (pp. 275–286)
Débora Sandhaus
Keywords: Pottery, Roman period, Herodian period, between the Revolts

• Stratigraphic Setting and Lithology of Mount Scopus Chalk Quarry Cave (pp. 287–293)
Amos Frumkin and Ze’ev Lewy
Keywords: bedrock stratigraphy, lithology, depositional paleoenvironment

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