Baths and Bathing: The Culture of Bathing and the Baths and Thermae in Palestine from the Hasmoneans to the Moslem Conquest: The culture of bathing ... Archaeological Reports International Series) - Softcover

Hoss, Stefanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841716928 ISBN 13: 9781841716923

Publisher: BAR Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

In this volume the author studies Roman baths in Israel, including a section on the miqveh (ritual Jewish bath), which first appears in the 2nd century BCE and becomes a fairly common feature both of Hellenistic private baths and other areas such as cemeteries, oil or wine presses and synagogues in Palestine in the 1st century BCE. The geographical limits of this study are set by the ancient identification of Palestine that is Cis- and Transjordania and the scope covers the time between the reign of Alexander Jannai (103-76 BCE) and the Muslim conquest (640 CE). The author draws a picture of the development of Roman baths and thermae in Palestine using a combination of literary and archaeological sources. This includes not only an account of the purely architectural development of the buildings, but also an account of the development of the institution of "bathing the Roman way" itself and the utilisation of the Roman baths and thermae in Palestine. The book concludes with a complete catalogue of baths in Roman Palestine and a selective catalogue of Miqva'ot in Roman Palestine.

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Stefanie Hoss

Edition details

• Publisher: BAR Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841716928
• ISBN 13: 9781841716923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 331