Tarbiz Vol. 80 No. 2

Table of Contents:
Elchanan Reiner - Joshua is Rashbi, Hatzor is Meron: On the Typology of a Galilean Foundation Myth
James Nathan Ford and Alon Ten-Ami - An Incantation Bowl for Rav Mešaršia son of Qaqay
Shulamit Elizur - Esa Meshali (I Shall Present my Lesson)
Matti Huss - The Beginning of Joseph Ibn Shimeon’s Ne'um Toviyahu ben Zidqiyahu
Yosef Ofer - Why Did Nahmanides Misread the Inscription on the Sheqel Coin?
Hannan Hever - The Trauma of the Lady of the Palace
Bezalel Bar-Kochva - The Essaioi: A Fiction or Historical Reality?
Rachel Elior - Essenes or ‘ha-Kohanim bnei Zaddok and Their Allies’. A Response to Bezalel Bar Kokhva, ‘The Essaioi: A Fiction or Historical Reality?’