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Book Reviews Novum 48,1_Brevs_83-101 12/29/05 1:35 PM Page 83 BOOK REVIEWS Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. Vol. I: Eastern Europe. Ed. D N, A P, H B. Vol. II: Asia Minor. Ed. W A. Vol. III: Syria and Cyprus. Ed. D N, H B (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 101, 99, 102, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004), pp. xvi + 397, xviii + 650, xvi + 284. ISBN 3-16-148189-5, ISBN 3-16- 148196-8, ISBN 3-16-148188-7. € 99.00, 119.00, 89.00. The three volumes of Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis—the editors suggest IJudO as abbreviation—will be the standard reference for Jewish inscriptions from the Graeco-Roman period in the eastern Mediterranean regions up to c. 700 C.E. for the next few generations of scholars. IJudO I-III is the latest of several recent publications that together replace the Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum. Vol. 1: Europe. Vol. 2: Asie-Afrique (ed. Jean-Baptiste Frey, Rome 1936/1952). Efforts to update CIJ began with a reprint of the first volume, in which Baruch Lifshitz provided addenda et corrigenda in a long prolegomenon (New York 1975). Other recent pub- lications that supersede various sections of CIJ include Yann Le Bohec (“Inscriptions juives et judaisantes de l’Afrique romaine,” Antiquités africaines 17 [1981] 165-207); Corpus jüdischer Zeugnisse aus der Cyrenaika (ed. Gert Lüderitz, Wiesbaden 1983); Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt (ed. William Horbury and David Noy, Cambridge 1992); Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe. Vol. 1: Italy [excluding the City of Rome], Spain and Gaul. Vol. 2: The City of Rome (ed. David Noy, Cambridge 1993/1995); note also Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (ed. Moshe Sharon, Leiden 1997). The Corpus Inscriptionum Palaestinae/Iudaeae awaits publication (cf. H. M. Cotton et al., ZPE 127 [1999] 307-308); see also the important publication by Lea Roth- Gerson, Greek Inscriptions from the Synagogues in Eretz-Israel (Hebrew; Jerusalem 1987). IJudO I-III collect a total of 543 Jewish inscriptions—265 of which were not included in CIJ—in all languages, i.e. in Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Palmyrene, Middle Persian and Parthian; 49 additional inscriptions which are either medieval, Palmyrene, not related to Syria, or not considered Jewish are presented in appen- dices. As regards the definition of “Jewish inscriptions”, all inscriptions were included that fulfilled one of the following criteria: 1. the use of Hebrew; 2. the use of specifically Jewish symbols; 3. the use of Jewish terminology or designations; 4. the use of distinctively Jewish names (unless the context is more likely to be Christian); 5. provenance from a synagogue; 6. reference to famous Jews (such as Herod I); 7. some Bosporan manumissions on account of their similarity to Jewish manumissions; 8. reference to Samaritans (Vol. I, Preface, v; cf. Ameling’s dis- cussion in Vol. II, 8-21). Each geographical region and each city or town is intro- duced by a brief discussion of the evidence for Jewish presence; such discussions are helpfully included regarding regions or towns for which the presence of Jews can be ascertained from literary sources only (e.g. in Vol. II for Priene, Tripolis, Troas, Amorion, Perge, Sillyon, and Anemourion, as well as for Armenia). The entry for each inscription follows a standard format: inscription number, descrip- tive title, bibliography (editions, illustrations/photos, translation [in Vol. II], other discussions), place where found and present location, description of stele or epi- taph or sarcophagus, letter forms (in Vols. I/III), drawing or photograph where possible (in Vols. I/III), date (in Vol. II after the text of the inscription), text, apparatus criticus, translation, and commentary. © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2006 Novum Testamentum XLVIII, 1 Also available online – www.brill.nl Novum 48,1_Brevs_83-101 12/29/05 1:35 PM Page 84 84 IJudO I covers in eleven sections Pannonia (5 inscriptions from Solva, Aquincum, Intercisa, Siklós, Mursa), Dalmatia (5 inscriptions from Peratovci, Senia, Salonae), Moesia (2 inscriptions from Oescus), Thrace (5 inscriptions from Philippopolis, Bizye, Perinthus, Assenovgrad), Macedonia (18 inscriptions from Stobi, Beroea, Philippi, Thessaloniki), Achaea: Thessaly (25 inscriptions from Larissa, Phthiotic Thebes, Almyros, Pherae), Achaea: Athens and Piraeus (16 inscriptions from Athens, Piraeus), Achaea: Greek Mainland (15 inscriptions from Delphi, Oropus, Plataea, Corinth, Argos, Arcadia, Coronea, Mantinea, Taenarum), Achaea: Greek Islands (19 inscriptions from Euboea, Aegina, Delos, Rhenaia, Syros), Crete (3 inscrip- tions from Arcades, Kastelli Kissamou), and the North Coast of the Black Sea (28 inscriptions from Olbia, Chersonesus, Panticapaeum, Phanagoria, Hermonassa, Gorgippia, Tanais). Of the 142 inscriptions in the main part of the book, 54 were not included in CIJ. IJudO II presents in eighteen chapters the inscriptions from Asia (11 texts from Chios, Samos, Ikaria, Cos, Rhodos), Thrace (2 texts from Bizye, Perinth), Caria (16 texts from Aphrodisias, Hyllarima, Iasos, Kaunos, Myndos, Nysa, Tralleis), Ionia (17 texts from Ephesus, Kyme/Phokaia, Miletus, Smyrna, Teos), Lydia (100 texts from Hypaipa, Magnesia ad Sipylum, Sardis, Thyatira), Mysia (2 texts from Kyzikos), Pontus and Bithynia (13 texts from Amastris, Calchedon, Klaudiou Polis, Nikaia, Nicomedia, Sebastopolis), Galatia (5 texts from Germa, Tavium), Phrygia (48 texts from Aizanoi, Akmoneia, Amorion, Apameia, Apollonia, Appia, Diokleia, Dokimeion, Dorylaion, Eumeneia, Hierapolis, Kotiaeion, Laodikeia, Synnada), Pisidia and Isauria (2 texts from Sidibunda [sic, for Sibidunda], Termessos), Pamphylia (4 texts from Aspendos, Side), Lycia (3 texts from Limyra, Oinoanda, Tlos), Lycaonia (5 texts from Gdanmaa, Ikonion, Laodikeia Katakekaumene, Sadahattin Hani), Cilicia (22 texts from Aigai, Diokaisareia, Korykos, Seleucia ad Kalykadnos, Selinus/Traianopolis, Tarsus), Cappadocia (3 texts from Nevsehir, Tyana), and five magical texts. W. Ameling was able to include inscriptions from Cappadocia, from Sardis and from other towns which still await official publica- tion (by J. H. Kroll and C. M. Thomas). Of the 258 inscriptions in this volume, 143 were not included in CIJ. IJudO III covers in five sections Phoenicia (33 inscriptions from Tyre, Ornithopolis, Sidon, Iamour, Chalcis, Mutatio Heldua, Beirut, Byblos, Tripolis, Arca Libanou), Southern Syria (19 inscriptions from Tafas, Naveh, Philippopolis, Damatha, Phaine, Qatana, Admedera, Damascus, Emesa, Palmyra), Northern Syria and Osrhoene (28 inscriptions from Apamea, Laodicea, Antioch, Simkhar, Aleppo, Edessa), Dura- Europos (51 inscriptions), and Cyprus (8 inscriptions from Lapethos, central region, Salamis, Kourion, Kition). The definition of “Syria” assumes the boundaries of the Roman provinces of Syria and Mesopotamia in the second and third cen- turies C.E., seeking to avoid overlap with the areas covered by the Corpus Inscriptionum Palaestinae/Iudaeae. The Jewish inscriptions of the Roman province of Arabia are not included. Of the 139 inscriptions in the main part of the book, 68 were not included in CIJ. The history of the IJudO project explains the editorial differences that distin- guish Vols. I/III and Vol. II. As regards Vol. I, D. Noy from the University of Wales, Lampeter is responsible for the entries for Pannonia and the Black Sea, A. Panayotov for the other sections—he had worked independently on a parallel project for a doctoral dissertation at the University of St Andrews. The volume was evidently edited by H. Bloedhorn, Director of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem, who began the work for this project when he pro- duced Map B VI 18 of the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (Wiesbaden 1992), before handing over responsibilities to D. Noy in 2002 at the request of Martin Hengel. Similarly, the work for Vol. III was begun by H. Bloedhorn and com-.
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