Publications

List of publications

Below the publications resulting from the project are listed:

Haggai Olshanetsky, “A Re-Evaluation and Analysis of CPJ V 638 and Its Implications on Understanding Social Relationships in the Roman Empire, and the Roman-Jewish Relationship in Particular”, Journal of Ancient Judaism, 15 n. 3 (2023), 1–21 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.30965/21967954-bja10053)

Haggai Olshanetsky, “Jewish Soldiers in the Roman Army and Their Place in Their Synagogues and Communities“, in: eds. B. Schneider,  A. Kubiak-Schneider, Serving the Gods: Artists, Craftsmen, Ritual Specialists in the Ancient World, Wiesbaden 2025, 145–170.

Haggai Olshanetsky, Alan Silverman and Lev Cosijns. “Turning the Tables: Re-evaluation of the Incident Between Jesus and the Money-Changers” Cogent Arts and Humanities 13/1 (2026): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2025.2587102

Haggai Olshanetsky, “Serving Living Gods and Kings: Jewish Soldiers in the Armies of Dynastic Egypt and the Persian Empire” (forthcoming)

Haggai Olshanetsky, “Jewish Military Service in the Ptolemaic Army in the 3rd c. BCE as the Impetus for the Septuagint Translation” (forthcoming)

Giorgio Paolo Campi, “The Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur between Mesopotamian and Biblical Wisdom”, AABNER 4, no. 1 (Spring, 2024): 67–123 (DOI: 10.35068/aabner.1050)

Giorgio Paolo Campi & Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, ‘The Non-Priestly Staff of the Jerusalem Temple in the Persian Period: Gatekeepers, Netinim, Sons of Solomon’s Servants, Singers’, in: eds. B. Schneider,  A. Kubiak-Schneider, Serving the Gods: Artists, Craftsmen, Ritual Specialists in the Ancient World, Wiesbaden 2025, 43–68 (link to the book at the publisher’s page)

Katharina Pyschny, “Cultural Hybridity Instead of Ethnicity: The Persian (and Early Hellenistic) Woman and Child Figurines as a Case Study“, Die Welt des Orients 54 (2024), 75–92

Sarah Hollaender, “From the Bed to the Shrine: Plaques with Enshrined Nude Females in Egypt and the Levant (With A Special Focus on Elephantine).” Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 141, 2026, (in print).

Sarah Hollaender,  “Fragment of a Limestone Shrine Plaque (Inv. No. 200-M20-1-2).” In: Ashmawy, A. und Raue, D. (eds.), Heliopolis Reports 3, Heidelberg: Propylaeum (in print).

Sarah Hollaender, “The Phallic Figurines from the Western Town of Elephantine.” In: Häusl, M., Dyma, O., Gaß, E. (eds.), Elephantine – Geschichte, Schriftlichkeit, JHWH-Glauben. Studien zur Sozial-, Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte der nachexilischen Zeit. Beiträge der AGAT-Tagung, Berlin 2023, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike (ORA), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (in print).

Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, “The Sabbatical Year Legislation and Temple Land Possession: Remarks on Socio-economic Legislation of the Hebrew Bible during the Persian period”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 68, 5-6 (2025), 514–535   DOI:10.1163/15685209-12341651

Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, “The Concept of Antiochus IV Epiphanes’ ‘Unifying Edict’ (1 Macc. 1:41-53) as an Product of Jewish Religious and Political Thought”, (in print)

Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, “Biblical Job and Greek Niobe: The influence of Greek myth on the biblical narrative, or cross-cultural considerations”, (in print)

Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, Haim Gitler, “Šeqel ha-qodeš of 20 gerahs, and the absolute dating of several texts from the Pentateuch: A numismatic approach“, (in print)

Krystyna Stebnicka, “Malalas on the Maccabees: A Reappraisal”, (in print)