1. Judaism, Hellenism and Bathhouses - Joseph Scales

This episode is hosted by Simeon Whiting and Katherine Gwyther. In this episode we discussed a forthcoming article with Joseph Scales: “Bathing Jewish, Bathing Greek: Developing an Approach to De-Categorising Hellenism and Judaism.” For more information, please contact us on twitter @AncientAlives or our guest @josephdscales.

This episode is marked explicit due to a reference to a particular theoretical lens, which can be found in the bibliography. Works that were referenced during the episode include:

Baker, Cynthia. “A ‘Jew’ by Any Other Name?” Journal of Ancient Judaism 2 (2011): 153–180.

Bonnie, Rick and Julian Richard. “Building D1 at Magdala Revisited in the Light of Public Fountain Architecture in the Late-Hellenistic East.” Israel Exploration Journal 62 (2012): 71–88.

De Luca, Stefano and Anna Lena. “The Mosaic of the Thermal Bath Complex of Magdala Reconsidered: Archaeological Context, Epigraphy and Iconography.” Pages 1–33 in Knowledge and Wisdom: Archaeological and Historical Essays in Honour of Leah Di Segni. Edited by Giovanni C. Bottini, L. Daniel Chrupcała and Joseph Patrich. Milan: Edizioni Terra Santa, 2014.

Guest, Deryn. “From Gender Reversal to Genderf*ck: Reading Jael through a Lesbian Lens.” In Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship. Edited by T. J. Hornsby and K. Stone (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2010), 9–43.

Johnson, Mark. The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Lakoff, George. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Lena, Anna. “Magdala 2008: Preliminary Report.” HA-ESI125 (2013): http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=5433&mag_id=120.

Mroczek, Eva. “The Hegemony of the Biblical in the Study of Second Temple Literature,” Journal of Ancient Judaism 6 (2015): 2–35.

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