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BYU Studies - 36:3

Introduction

Articles

Masada: Herod’s Fortress and the Zealots’ Last Stand
Yigael Yadin and S. Kent Brown
Page 15
King Herod
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
Page 35
Herod’s Wealth
John W. Welch
Page 74
Herod the Great’s Building Program
Andrew Teasdale
Page 85
Alexander the Great Comes to Jerusalem: The Jewish Response to Hellenism
Cecilia M. Peek
Page 99
A Historical Sketch of Galilee
Andrew C. Skinner
Page 113
Revolutionaries in the First Century
Kent P. Jackson
Page 129
Legal and Social Perspectives on Robbers in First-Century Judea
John W. Welch
Page 141
The Keys of the Kingdom: Keys from Masada
Marti Lu Allen
Page 154
The Virgins’ Lamps: Shine Beautiful!
Marti Lu Allen
Page 170
Loosing a Shoe Latchet: Sandals and Footwear in the First Century
Shane A. Baker
Page 196
The Fruit of the Vine: Wine at Masada and in the New Testament
Jo Ann H. Seely
Page 207
Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin: Languages of New Testament Judea
Roger T. Macfarlane
Page 228
Coins in the New Testament
Nanci DeBloois
Page 239
Gammadia on Early Jewish and Christian Garments
Claire Foley and John W. Welch
Page 252
The Priestly Tithe in the First Century A.D.
John A. Tvedtnes
Page 261
The Masada Synagogue and Its Relationship to Jewish Worship during the Second Temple Period
E. Jan Wilson
Page 269
Miqvaot: Ritual Immersion Baths in Second Temple (Intertestamental) Jewish History
Stephen D. Ricks
Page 277
The Masada Fragments, the Qumran Scrolls, and the New Testament
David Rolph Seely
Page 287
Sacred Books: The Canon of the Hebrew Bible at the End of the First Century
Robert L. Maxwell
Page 302
The Roman Province of Judea: A Historical Overview
John F. Hall
Page 319
The Roman Army in the First Century
William J. Hamblin
Page 337
Casting Stones: Ballista, Stones as Weapons, and Death by Stoning
James V. Garrison
Page 350
And They Cast Lots: Divination, Democracy, and Josephus
Eric D. Huntsman
Page 365
Suicide at Masada and in the World of the New Testament
Daniel K Judd
Page 378
The Reliability of Josephus: Can He Be Trusted?
Eric D. Huntsman
Page 392

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