Open Access Journal: Scripta Classica Israelica

[First posted in AWOL 4 October 2021, updated 20 September 2025]

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. 44 (2025)

The Ekphrasis on the Water Clock: Art, Rhetoric and Measurement of Time in Sixth-Century Gaza

Rina Talgam

1-32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i1.13955

Firmarent velut foedus (Tac. Ann. 6.30): Prolegomenon to the Language of Compromise in Rome

Noam Rytwo

33-56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.13699

Revisiting Virgil’s Heroes’ Parade: An Apocalyptic Historical Review

Alon Deutsch

57-72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.13619

Homeric γόον ‘bewailed’ (Ζ 500)

Alan J. Nussbaum

115-142

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15361

Forging Movement: The Strigil in Athenian Vase Painting Iconography

Yael Young

73-91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15357

Three New Sidewalk Inscriptions from Caesarea Maritima

Rivka Gersht, Peter Gendelman

143-155

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15363

Was Lysias 1 Delivered in an Athenian Court?

Andrew Wolpert

93-113

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15359

Proemial Bridges: An Intratextual Association Activating an Intertextual Reference

Christos Tsagalis

157-173

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15365

On the First Stasimon of Sophocles’ OT

Zoia Barzakh

175-182

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15367

Ketubah of Antinoopolis, Letter of Resh Galuta and Aramaic Tombstone Inscriptions from Zoar Or What Was the Original Molad Calendar of Hillel Bar Yehuda?

Ari Belenkiy, Pavel Kuzenkov

183-215

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15369

Reviews

Guy Darshan, Stories of Origins in the Bible and Ancient Mediterranean Literature, translated by Hannah Davidson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 333 pp. ISBN: .9781009344487

Johannes Haubold

217-219

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15909

Irad Malkin, Josine Blok, Drawing Lots: From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 536 pp. ISBN: 9780197753477

Nina Roux

219-221

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15907

Abraham Arouetty, Prolegomena ad Linguam Latinam: liber ad elementa Latinitatis discenda, Israel: n.p., 2022, 356 pp. ISBN: 9789655980127

Nir Stern

221-223

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15377

Melanie Racette-Campbell, The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 262 pp. ISBN: 9780299343507

Jaclyn Neel

224-226

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15375

Giulio Iovine (ed.), Latin Military Papyri of Dura-Europos (P.Dura 55–145): A New Edition of the Texts, with Introduction and Notes, Cambridge University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9781009183130

Haggai Olshanetsky

226-228

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15373

Walter Ameling, Hannah M. Cotton, Werner Eck, Avner Ecker, Johannes Heinrichs, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein (†), Jonathan Price, Peter Weiß, Ohad Abudraham, and Ada Yardeni (†) (eds.), Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, Volume V: Galilaea and

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

228-231

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15371

Obituaries

David Konstan
1940-2024

Philip Mitsis

233-235

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15897

John Glucker
1933-2024

Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Yosef Z. Libersohn

237-240

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15899

Gabriel Herman
1947-2024

Alexander Yakobson

241-243

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15901

Hannah Rosén
1931-2024

Donna Shalev

245-251

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15903

Proceedings

Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference of The Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
June 19–20, 2024, Bar-Ilan University

253-259

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v44i.15905

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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