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2024-03-28T12:47:14ZQumran aos setenta : algumas reflexões sobre os setenta anos da pesquisa acadêmica sobre a Arqueologia de Qumran e os Manuscritos do Mar Morto
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Title: Qumran aos setenta : algumas reflexões sobre os setenta anos da pesquisa acadêmica sobre a Arqueologia de Qumran e os Manuscritos do Mar Morto
Authors: Mizzi, Dennis
Abstract: O ano de 2017 marcou o septuagesimo aniversario dos Manuscritos
do Mar Morto. Essa colecao de textos judaicos foi considerada por muitos
como uma das "maiores descobertas arqueologicas do seculo XX" e
provou ser fundamental para ajudar a esclarecer o Judaismo Antigo e a
transmissao dos textos bfblicos. Nao e exagerado dizer que, de varios modos,
a descoberta dos manuscritos mudou as "regras do jogo"; e, por isso,
e muito apropriado que esta data seja celebrada. Contudo, os manuscritos
nao podem ser separados de seu contexto, sem o qual parte crucial da sua
identidade se perde. Portanto, qualquer celebracao de aniversario desse
importante corpus textual deveria ser tambem a celebracao de Qumran,
o sitio que deu a nos os Manuscritos do Mar Morto.2017-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Oxford companion to the Book entries
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Title: The Oxford companion to the Book entries
Authors: Mizzi, Dennis
Abstract: 2 entries written by Dr Dennis Mizzi in The Oxford Companion to the Book (2010).2010-01-01T00:00:00ZRewriting the history of the Qumran caves : reviews of Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Marcello Fidanzio, eds., Khirbet Qumrân et Aïn Feshka, Vol. 4a : Qumran cave 11Q
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Title: Rewriting the history of the Qumran caves : reviews of Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Marcello Fidanzio, eds., Khirbet Qumrân et Aïn Feshka, Vol. 4a : Qumran cave 11Q
Authors: Mizzi, Dennis; Grey, Matthew J.
Abstract: THE following three reviews by George Brooke, Sidnie White
Crawford, and Lawrence Schiffman emerge out of a book review
panel that took place in November 2020 at the Annual Meeting
of the Society of Biblical Literature. The panel was organized within
the framework of a new program unit dedicated to the Archaeology of
Roman Palestine, co-chaired by the authors of this introduction.
The aim of this new unit is to sponsor sessions highlighting a wide
variety of thematic issues on the socio-political, economic, cultural,
and religious history of Roman Palestine as seen through the lens of
its material remains and to explore intersections with key topics of
interest to scholars of early Judaism and Christianity. This will allow us
to situate the early Jewish and Christian experience within the broader
milieu in which both communities emerged. We therefore hope that
this unit can provide a venue for both archaeologists and textual scholars
to present reports on their most recent discoveries and their reviews
of key publications in the discipline, and to discuss other topics that could bring archaeological data into dialogue with text-focused research
in a way that is mutually beneficial.
In view of these objectives, it is fitting that our inaugural session
was dedicated to celebrating a recently published volume by Jean-
Baptiste Humbert and Marcello Fidanzio on Qumran Cave 11Q that
embodies this same interdisciplinary perspective and showcases the
importance of an integrative approach for the study of the Dead Sea
Scrolls. By publishing these three reviews, we hope to cast a spotlight
on and create a conversation around this key publication, which represents
a major milestone in the history of research on the Qumran caves.
Of all the caves investigated by Roland de Vaux between 1952
and 1956, Cave 11Q was the only one not to be published in DJD,
owing to a complicating set of political and logistical factors. Before
the publication of Humbert and Fidanzio’s volume, therefore, information
on Cave 11Q had to be gleaned largely from a brief preliminary
report published by de Vaux in Revue Biblique in 1956 and de Vaux’s
field notes, which were published with slight modifications by Jean-
Baptiste Humbert and Alain Chambon in 1994. Cave 11Q was reinvestigated
by Joseph Patrich in the 1980s, but no proper publication of
the findings ever appeared in print, except for a short note in an article
published in 1994. As a result, there have been many outstanding questions
concerning a wide range of issues such as the cave’s history of use,
the nature of its various occupations, its stratigraphic profile, the context
and date of specific artefacts, the depositional and post-depositional
history of the scrolls, and more. This final report presents the necessary
primary data—including the original excavation notes, photographs,
drawings, and other archival material—that will allow scholars to address
these issues more definitively.2022-01-01T00:00:00ZHuqoq 2022 – preliminary report
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Title: Huqoq 2022 – preliminary report
Authors: Magness, Jodi; Mizzi, Dennis; Grey, Matthew; Burney, Jocelyn; Cline, Rangar; Wells, Martin; Britt, Karen; Boustan, Ra‘anan
Abstract: In May–July 2022, the tenth season of excavations was conducted at Horbat Huqoq (henceforth Huqoq) in Eastern Galilee (License No. G-4/2022; map ref. 245000–500/754300–650; Magness 2012; Magness et al. 2013; Magness et al. 2014; Magness et al. 2016a; Magness et al. 2016 b; Magness et al. 2017; Magness et al. 2018; Magness et al. 2019; Magness et al. 2020). The excavation was undertaken and underwritten by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Austin College (Texas), Baylor University (Texas), Brigham Young University (Utah) and the University of Toronto (Canada). Additional funding was provided by the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Kenan Charitable Trust, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and private donors. The excavation was directed by J. Magness, with D. Mizzi (assistant director), M. Golan (administration), J. Burney, M. Grey, and R. Cline (area supervision), J. Haberman (field photography), Griffin Higher Photography (aerial photography), M. Robinson-Mohr (registration), D. Schindler (ceramics), K. Britt and R. Boustan (mosaics), M. Wells (architecture), S. O’Connell (painted plaster), R. Mohr (drawing), S. Pirsky (drafting), R. Lowinger and L. Roundhill (site conservation) and M. Lavie (small finds conservation). The volunteers consisted of undergraduate and graduate students from the U.S.A., Canada and Germany.2023-01-01T00:00:00Z