By Jan Willem Van Henton, J. W. Van Henten, Pieter Willem Van Der Horst
This quantity comprises the papers of a workshop on Jewish epigraphy in antiquity equipped at Utrecht college in 1992. between the members have been collaborators of the Cambridge Jewish Inscriptions venture and of the Tubinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients venture. very important facets of old Jewish inscriptions are highlighted within the papers, just like the connection among documentary and literary texts. a number of papers concentrate on facets of the historical past of Jewish groups within the diaspora. experts in Jewish epigraphy will locate surveys of components of the corpus of Jewish inscriptions (curse inscriptions, metrical epitaphs, alphabet-inscriptions) and discussions of a few fastened reviews, and Jewish inscriptions are mentioned in a much broader literary and historic contexts as good. CONTENTS: William Horbury, `Jewish Inscriptions and Jewish Literature in Egypt, with certain connection with Ecclesiasticus'. Jan Willem van Henten, `A Jewish Epitaph in a Literary textual content: four Macc 17:8-10'. Johan H.M. Strubbe, 'Curses opposed to Violation of the Grave in Jewish Epitaphs from Asia Minor'. Pieter W. van der Horst, `Jewish Poetical Tomb Inscriptions'. Alice J. Bij de Vaate, `Alphabet-Inscriptions from Jewish Graves'. David Noy, `The Jewish groups of Leontopolis and Venosa'. Gert Luderitz, `What is the Politeuma?' Tessa Rajak, `Inscription and Context: studying the Jewish Catacombs of Rome'. Gerard Mussies, `Jewish own Names in a few Non-Literary Sources'. Hanswulf Bloedhorn, `Zur Architektur der Synagogen in der Diaspora'.
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S- 38 W. HORBURY This may relate to memorial dinners held at the tomb (E. Puech, as cited in the previous footnote) , but that would not remove its Epicurean overtones. Horaia' s stress on the universality of death therefore offers some analogy to the consolatory argument of Sir 38:22, 41 :3-4, in addition to the similarly partial analogies found in other epitaphs, but her final injunction as a whole implies counsel closer to the more Epicurean comfort of Sir 14: 1 1-19, a passage itself comparable with the Judaean Greek inscription of the tomb ofJason.
4 See further on 4 Maccabees C. L. W. fltes exegetisches Handbuch zu den Apokryphen des Alten Testamentes (6 vols. ; eds. 0 . F. Fritzsche & C. L. W. 283370. J. Freudenthal, Die Flavius Josephus beigelegte Schrift Uber die Herrschaft der Vernunft (IV Makkabiierbuch), eine Predigt aus dem ersten nachchristlichen 46 J· W. 5 The martyrology in 4 Maccabees is focussed on the ideal way of life. Neither an actual struggle for liberation nor the institutions of a Jewish nation ultimately matter to the author.
Mother, consumed with grief, weep for me, dead at twenty-seven; all of you, weep. Here the mother is "set on fire" (lTETiupw�E VT} ) , in what seems although this has been questioned - to be an allusion to burning grief. The 'heated' lamentation commended in Ecclesiasticus with a different Greek verb (6Ep�alvw) will be compared below. Thus far, the Egyptian epitaphs can be seen emphatically to echo the summons to lament given by a Judaean Jew, Ben Sira. In this respect both Ecclesiasticus and the epitaphs tally with 30 W.