Front matter, SCI 17 (1998)

II Sam. 17:28 — Beds, Sofas, and Hebrew Lexicography

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Aristotle, Topics 122a27-30 and Related Issues

10-20

Diogenes Laertius on the Stoic definitions of κόσμος

21-26

The First Jewish Scientist?

27-33

The Refusal of the Centuriate Assembly to Declare War on Macedon (200 BC) — A Reappraisal

33-44

A Greek Looks at Rome: Polybius VI Revisited

45-59

Marriage Contract Regulations and Documentary Practice in the Greek Papyri

60-76

The Ptolemy and the Hare: Dating an Old Story About the Translation of the Septuagint

77-86

Zur Sprach- und Kulturpolitik in der Klassischen Antike

87-101

Week and Sabbath in Judaean Desert Documents

102-114

The Law of Succession in the Documents from the Judaean Desert Again

115-123

Pagan Propaganda during the Usurpation of Magnentius (350 - 353)

124-141

The Jews in the Late Roman Empire

142-171

The Imaginary History of Religious Toleration

172-182

Liste des Rééditions et Traductions des Textes Publiés dans le Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, Vols. I-III

183-205

The Princess of Inscriptions: Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre and the Early Years of Tiberius’ Reign

Werner Eck, Antonio Caballos and Fernando Fernandez, Das senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre (Vestigia 48). Munich: C.H. Beck, 1996, xiv + 329 pp. 20 pis.

206-224

George Cawkwell, Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War, London and New York: Routledge, 1997,162 pp.

225-227

T.J. Luce, The Greek Historians, London and New York: Routledge, 1997, 156 pp., ISBN 0-415-10592-7.

227-229

Janice J. Gabbert, Antigonus II Gonatas: A Political Biography, London and New York: Routledge, 1997, viii + 88 pp.

229-231

Julian Bennett, Trajan, Optimus Princeps. A Life and Times, , London and New York: Routledge, 1997, xviii + 317 pp., ISBN 0-415-165245.

231-234

Eleanor Dickey, Greek Forms of Address From Herodotus to Lucian, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xxi + 335 pp., ISBN 0-19-815054-7.

235-238

M.L. Clarke, Rhetoric at Rome: A Historical Survey, revised and with a new introduction by D.H. Berry, London and New York: Routledge, 1996, 206 pp.

238

Robert Wardy, The Birth of Rhetoric, London and New York: Routledge, 1996, viii + 197 pp.;

Roman Eloquence, edited by William J. Dominik, London and New York: Routledge, 1997, xii + 268 pp.; Dire L ’Évidence, textes réunis par Carlos Lévy et Laurent Pernot, Paris and Montreal: Éditions L’Harmattan, 1997,448 pp.

238-242

L. Annaei Senecae Naturalium Quaestionum Libros recognouit Harry Μ. Hine (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana), Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1996, li + 331 pp.

Harry Μ. Hine, Studies in the text of Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones, Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1996, 130 pp.

242-245

Τ. Maslowski (ed.), Μ. Tulli Ciceronis scripta quae manserunt omnia, fasc. 23: Orationes in Ρ. Vatinium testem, Pro Μ. Caelio, Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1995, cxxii + 156 pp.

245-247

Suzanne MacAlister, Dreams and Suicides. The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire, London and New York: Routledge, 1996, ix + 235 pp.

247-248

Bernd Schröder, Die ‘Väterlichen Gesetze’: Flavius Josephus als Vermittler von Halachah an Griechen und Römer (Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum, 53), Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebek), 1996, xi + 313 pp.

248-252

Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, xxi + 401 pp.

252-255

Studies on the Jewish Diaspora in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Te'uda XII, edd. B. Isaac and Α. Oppenheimer, Tel Aviv, 1996, 254 pp.

255-257

Giuseppe Veltri, Magie und Halakha: Ansätze zu einem empirischen Wissenschaftsbegriff im spätantiken und frühmittelalterlichen Judentum (Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum, 62), Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebek), 1997, xii + 293 pp.

257-262

Μ. Kiley (ed.), Prayer from Alexander to Constantine, A critical anthology, London and New York: Routledge, 1997, xx + 332 pp„ ISBN 0-415-13234-7.

262-263

Veronika Ε. Grimm, From Fasting to Feasting, The Evolution of a Sin. Attitudes to Food in Late Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, 1996, 304 pp.

263-265

Classical Studies in Honor of David Sohlberg, edited by Ranon Katzoff, with Yaakov Petroff and David Schaps, Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1996, ix + 510 pp.

265-269

Simon Homblower and Antony Spawforth feds.), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, third edition, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, lv + 1640 pp., ISBN 0- 19-866172-X, £70.00.

269-272

A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (GALex) Materials for a Dictionary of the Mediaeval Translations from Greek into Arabic. Fascicle 3. (Handbuch der Orientalistik/Handbook o f Oriental Studies, Erste Abteilung:

Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten/The Near and Middle East, XI. Band), edd. G. Endress and D. Gutas, Leiden-New York-Köln: Brill, 1995, pp. [225-320] (+ 32 pp. of insert); A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (GALex) Materials for a Dictionary of the Mediaeval Translations from Greek into Arabic. Fascicle 4. (Handbuch der Orientalistik/Handbook of Oriental Studies, Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten/The Near and Middle East, XI. Band), edd. G. Endress and D. Gutas, Leiden-New York-Köln: BriH, 1997, pp. [321-480] (+ 42 pp. of insert).

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Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies

27-29 May 1997, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

278-280