Contents -- Biography of Lee I. Levine -- Publications of Lee I. Levine -- Abbreviations -- Hellenism, Christianity, and Judaism -- Hellenism and Judaism before and after World War II -- The Name of the Ruse -- Jesus and the Galilean Am ha-Aretz -- Hellenism and Judaism: Fluid Boundaries -- Porphyry on Judaism: Some Observations -- The Bishops of Sepphoris -- The Humanistic Evaluation of Religion -- Art and Archaeology: Jerusalem and Galilee -- The Observance of Ritual Purity after 70 -- The Tomb of Jason Reconsidered -- The Hippo-Stadium /Amphitheater in Jerusalem -- Aramaic Ostraca of the Late Second Temple Period from a Farmhouse North of Jerusalem -- An "Encore" on the Bar Kochba Tetradrachm: A Re-vision of Interpretation -- Burial Practices in Beth Sheʻarim and the Question of Dating the Patriarchal Necropolis -- The Rabbis -- Abbaye's Family Origins: A Study in Rabbinic Genealogy -- The Miracle of the Septuagint in Ancient Rabbinic and Christian Literature -- The Rabbinic Class Revisited: -- Rabbis, Preachers, and Aggadists -- Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and Babylonia: Ties and Tensions -- The Religious Orientation of Non-Rabbis in Second-Century Palestine -- Martyrdom, the Middle Way, and Mediocrity (Genesis Rabbah 82:8) -- Sinai-Mountain and Desert -- Rabbinic and Roman Honor and Deference -- The Ancient Synagogue -- The Dura-Europos Synagogue Wall Paintings: A Question of Origin and Interpretation -- Priests and Purity in the Dura-Europos Synagogue -- The Problem of the Scarcity of Synagogues from 70 to ca. 250 -- The Synagogue as Foe in Early Christian Literature -- Contents -- Hebrew Section End.