Open Access Journal: Scripta Classica Israelica

[First posted in AWOL 4 October 2021, updated 5 July 2024]

Scripta Classica Israelica is the yearbook of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies. The journal is published in Israel and is generously supported by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar Ilan University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Haifa University, Tel-Aviv University and the Open University.

From its inception in 1974, Scripta Classica Israelica has been devoted to the study of Classics and Ancient History. It welcomes articles in English, French, German, Italian or Latin on any aspect of the classical world. All submissions are refereed by outside readers.

Reflecting the aims of the ISPCS, Scripta Classica Israelica also keeps its readers informed about Classics in Israel by issuing reports on:

* Classics in Hebrew;
* Dissertations in progress at Israeli universities;
* The proceedings of the annual conference of the ISPCS.

Contributors and Authors should consult our 'Guidelines for Contributors'.

Subscription inquiries should be addressed to scripta.classica.israelica@gmail.com.

Vol. 43 (2024)

What Caesarea Has to Do with Alexandria? The Christian Library between Myth and Reality

Sabrina Inowlocki

1–19

‘Strabo on The Herodian Dynasty’: An Unpublished Paper by Ronald Syme, Transcribed, Annotated, and Reviewed

Nikos Kokkinos

21-42

Zeugnisse für militärische Einheiten im Negev zwischen dem späten 1. und dem 3. Jh. n.Chr.—Vorarbeit für CIIP VI

Werner Eck

43–53

Medical Fraternity: Initiations in the Hippocratic Corpus

Yulia Ustinova

55-86

La version païenne du Frigidus : Eunape, ses éֹpigones et Alan Cameron (The Last Pagans of Rome, pp. 110–111)

Jean-Fabrice Nardelli

87–149

Undescribed Appearances in Classical Greek Politics

Peter B. Martin

151–177

Punishment and Authority in the Athenian Forensic Discourse

Janek Kucharski

179–197

Il Lykion e la conservazione della sua identità: da Dioscoride a Maimonide e alle soglie dell’età contemporanea

Luigi Taborelli

199–209

Bar-Kokhban Seals from Ḥorbat Yatir

Daniel Vainstub, Peter Fabian

211–230

The So-called “Decree of Delos”, Again (Jos. AJ 14. 231–32)

Claude Eilers

231–236

OMONYA on Late Antique Wedding Objects

Dimitrios Papanikolaou

237–240

Reviews

Nicolette A. Pavlides, The Hero Cults of Sparta. Local Religion in a Greek City

Erica Angliker

241-242

Matt Waters, King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great

Domenico Agostini

242-244

Bryan C. Reece, Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom

Orna Harari

245-247

Bartolo Natoli, Angela Pitts, Judith P. Hallett. Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome

Ruth Scodel

248-250

David Wharton (ed.), A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity

Adeline Grand- Clément

250-253

Erica Angliker and Ilaria Bultrighini (eds.), New Approaches to the Materiality of Text in the Ancient Mediterranean. From Monuments and Buildings to Small Portable Objects

Cristina Carusi

253-255

James Gersbach, The War Cry in the Graeco-Roman World

Sebastián Uribe Rodríguez

256-257

Attilio Mastrocinque, The Mithraic Prophecy

Luther H. Martin

258-260

John A. North (ed.), The Religious History of the Roman Empire: The Republican Centuries

Maik Patzelt

260-263

Samuele Rocca, In the Shadow of the Caesars: Jewish Life in Roman Italy

Haggai Olshanetsky

263-265

Louise Blanke and Jennifer Cromwell (eds.), Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine

Paweł Filipczak

265-269

Obituaries

Ra’anana Meridor
1923–2023

Hannah M. Cotton

271-275

Howard Jacobson
1940–2023

Joseph Geiger

277-278

Proceedings

Proceedings of the 51th Annual Conference

287-290

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Vol. 42 (2023)

Articles

Preface

Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz

1

Classics in Israel: Where Do We Go From Here?
Ory Amitay

Ory Amitay

3-7

Greece and Rome in Israeli Schools

Amit Baratz

9-17

Towards an Unusual speculum principis? Virtues in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus’s Proemialis Declaratio

Andrea Balbo, Elisa Della Calce, Simone Mollea

19-39

Hadrian in Iudaea. Zu gefälschten Inschriften ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τραιανοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ

Werner Eck

41–52

Legal Ostraca from Herodium

Esther Eshel, Haggai Misgav, Roi Porat

53–65

Daphnis in the Middle: Theocritus’ Inter-generic Poetics and the Origins of the Bucolic Genre

Alexandros Kampakoglou

67–89

Δίκαιος and Cognates in Plato’s Crito

Yosef Z. (Yossie) Liebersohn

91–110

When Teleology Fails: Aristotle on Bile as a Useless Residue in Parts of Animals

Dmitry Ezrohi

111–129

Notes

Errata
GUALTIERO CALBOLI, ‘Cicero, Orator 21 and Nonius Marcellus’, SCI 32 (2013), 229–232

Gultiero Calboli

131

Reviews

Franco Montanari, History of Ancient Greek Literature. Volume 1: The Archaic and Classical Ages, with the collaboration of Fausto Montana, translated from the Italian original by Rachel Barritt Costa with revision by Orla Mulholland; Volume 2: The Helleni

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

133-136

Sitta von Reden (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy

Jeremy Trevett

136-139

Jennifer Baird and April Pudsey (eds.), Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches

Michael Eisenberg

139-142

Julia L. Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities

Ilaria Bultrighini

142-144

David Saunders (ed.), Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting

Rivka Gersht

144-147

Michaël Girardin, L’offrande et le tribut. Histoire politique de la fiscalité en Judée hellénistique et romaine (200 a.C.–135 p.C.)

Benedikt Eckhardt

147-149

Noah Hacham and Tal Ilan (eds.). Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum V: The Early-Roman Period (30 BCE–117 CE)

Haggai Olshanetsky

149-152

Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shepardson, and Charles M. Stang (eds.), Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology

Catalin-Stefan Popa

152-155

Obituaries

David Weissert
1930–2021

Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz

157–160

Moshe Fischer
1945–2021

Oren Tal, Itamar Taxel

161-163

Aminadav A. Dykman
1958–2022

Abraham Arouetty

164-166

Proceedings

Proceedings of the 51th Annual Conference of The Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
June 15–16, 2022, Ben Gurion University

175-178

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