G E Gardner
Biographic Data
| ID | 2120387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G E Gardner |
| GIVEN NAMES | G E |
| FAMILY NAME | Gardner |
| SIGNATURE | GARDNER G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2063-9795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1929 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism, by Benjamin D. Gordon
Rural adaptation and settlement change in the late Islamic Jabal al-Khalīl (Judean Foothills)
This study examines the transformation of rural settlement in the Shephelah region of Ottoman Palestine as a reflection of communal adaptation to changes in the political and security landscapes. Focusing on Khirbet Drūsye (Horvat Midras), we integrate archaeological evidence with Ottoman fiscal surveys and Sharia court registers to trace the site's transition from a prosperous Mamluk-era village to a seasonal habitation ( ʿizbeh ) by the 1550s. …
Conspicuous Construction: New Light on Funerary Monuments in Rural Early Roman Judea from Horvat Midras
This paper discusses the growing trend in Late Hellenistic- and Early Roman-era Judea (ca. 200 b.c.e.–70 c.e.) for constructing “display tombs”—funerary architecture designed to achieve maximum visibility and project the status of the individual or family who financed the construction, not just in the cities, but also in the countryside. It uses the case study of the recently excavated pyramidal tomb marker at Horvat Midras (Israel), an affluent …
Objects, affordances, and material histories in Roman Palestine: A case study on Northern Collar-Neck Lamps and their uses in early Jewish Sources
This article seeks to contribute to the growing scholarship on object-focused Roman histories by expanding the conversation to previously overlooked archaeological finds from Roman Palestine. This case study focuses on “Northern Collar-Neck Lamps,” which have been found throughout Roman Galilee and date to the first two centuries CE. I argue that their distinctive high collar, perhaps designed to reduce spillage, also served as an affordance that…
Material Culture, Experimentation, and Household Lighting in Early Rabbinic Judaism
This paper examines how the materiality of lighting influenced the development of ancient rabbinic teachings that would later become the foundations of Jewish law. Drawing on ideas and frameworks from scholarship on material religion, I bring together archaeological finds, experimental archaeology, and references to objects in classical rabbinic literature to argue that the ways that lighting was used provided the earliest rabbis with tools and f…
Light, Lamps, and Material Religion in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Recent scholarship on material religion has demonstrated how decentralizing texts, focusing on objects, and using material culture to shape our research inquiries enhances our understanding of religious traditions. This article seeks to initiate a conversation on material religion and ancient Judaism by applying methods from the former to archaeological finds from Roman-era Palestine and the numerous references to objects in late antique rabbinic…
From the Guest Editors
Previous articleNext article FreeFrom the Guest EditorsGregg E. Gardner and Lily C. VuongGregg E. Gardner Search for more articles by this author and Lily C. Vuong Search for more articles by this author Full TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe ark of the covenant and the golden candelabrum (a.k.a. menorah) are among the many religious relic…
The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism
This book examines the origins of communal and institutional almsgiving in rabbinic Judaism. It undertakes a close reading of foundational rabbinic texts (Mishnah, Tosefta, Tannaitic Midrashim) and places their discourses on organized giving in their second to third century CE contexts. Gregg E. Gardner finds that Tannaim promoted giving through the soup kitchen (tamhui) and charity fund (quppa), which enabled anonymous and collective support for…
Let Them Eat Fish: Food for the Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Recent scholarship has shown how investigations into food and poverty contribute to our understanding of late-antique Judaism and Christianity. These areas of inquiry overlap in the study of charity, as providing food was the preeminent way to support the poor. What foods and foodways do the earliest texts of rabbinic Judaism prescribe for the poor? This article examines Tannaitic discussions of the foods that should be given as charity, reading …
Who Is Rich: The Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Poverty and support for the poor are central concepts of rabbinic Judaism. The significance of support for the poor is established already in the earliest stratum of rabbinic literature, the tannaitic corpus, which took shape in Roman Palestine in the early third century C.E. To illuminate rabbinic Judaism's foundational texts on this central topic, it is crucial to examine the perspective from which they were authored. What was the socio-economi…
City of Lights: The Lamps of Roman and Byzantine Jerusalem
This article examines the ceramic oil lamps of Jerusalem during the Roman and Byzantine eras (63 b.c.e. to 640 c.e.). Following an overview of the importance of lamps to their ancient users and modern archaeologists, it demonstrates how the history of Jerusalem can be illuminated through the development of its lamps. This paper examines the forms, decorations, and chronology of the most prominent types — the Herodian, Decorated Discus, Beit Natti…
Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World
Leading scholars in early Christianity, Judaic studies, classics, history and archaeology explore the ways that memories were retrieved, reconstituted and put to use by Jews, Christians and their pagan neighbours in late antiquity, from the third century B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E.
Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World
Leading scholars explore how collective memory and group history played roles in identity formation, political propaganda, and religious beliefs and practice for Jews, Christians and pagans in late antiquity.
Markets and Marketing in Roman Palestine
The inferiority feelings of college students
The college mental hygienist, through his courses of instruction, ought to forestall the unfavorable, or even disastrous effects of excessive self-depreciation of college men and women. At least, the instructor may make evident to the students the subsequent antagonisms, breaking of discipline, and day-dreaming that obviously have their source in college. The knowledge of these trends of the mind would act as a preventative. Likewise the hygienis…
Who Is Rich: The Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Poverty and support for the poor are central concepts of rabbinic Judaism. The significance of support for the poor is established already in the earliest stratum of rabbinic literature, the tannaitic corpus, which took shape in Roman Palestine in the early third century C.E. To illuminate rabbinic Judaism's foundational texts on this central topic, it is crucial to examine the perspective from which they were authored. What was the socio-economi…
Light, Lamps, and Material Religion in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Recent scholarship on material religion has demonstrated how decentralizing texts, focusing on objects, and using material culture to shape our research inquiries enhances our understanding of religious traditions. This article seeks to initiate a conversation on material religion and ancient Judaism by applying methods from the former to archaeological finds from Roman-era Palestine and the numerous references to objects in late antique rabbinic…
City of Lights: The Lamps of Roman and Byzantine Jerusalem
This article examines the ceramic oil lamps of Jerusalem during the Roman and Byzantine eras (63 b.c.e. to 640 c.e.). Following an overview of the importance of lamps to their ancient users and modern archaeologists, it demonstrates how the history of Jerusalem can be illuminated through the development of its lamps. This paper examines the forms, decorations, and chronology of the most prominent types — the Herodian, Decorated Discus, Beit Natti…
The inferiority feelings of college students
The college mental hygienist, through his courses of instruction, ought to forestall the unfavorable, or even disastrous effects of excessive self-depreciation of college men and women. At least, the instructor may make evident to the students the subsequent antagonisms, breaking of discipline, and day-dreaming that obviously have their source in college. The knowledge of these trends of the mind would act as a preventative. Likewise the hygienis…
Markets and Marketing in Roman Palestine
Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World
Leading scholars in early Christianity, Judaic studies, classics, history and archaeology explore the ways that memories were retrieved, reconstituted and put to use by Jews, Christians and their pagan neighbours in late antiquity, from the third century B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E.
Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World
Leading scholars explore how collective memory and group history played roles in identity formation, political propaganda, and religious beliefs and practice for Jews, Christians and pagans in late antiquity.
Let Them Eat Fish: Food for the Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Recent scholarship has shown how investigations into food and poverty contribute to our understanding of late-antique Judaism and Christianity. These areas of inquiry overlap in the study of charity, as providing food was the preeminent way to support the poor. What foods and foodways do the earliest texts of rabbinic Judaism prescribe for the poor? This article examines Tannaitic discussions of the foods that should be given as charity, reading …
Who Is Rich: The Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Poverty and support for the poor are central concepts of rabbinic Judaism. The significance of support for the poor is established already in the earliest stratum of rabbinic literature, the tannaitic corpus, which took shape in Roman Palestine in the early third century C.E. To illuminate rabbinic Judaism's foundational texts on this central topic, it is crucial to examine the perspective from which they were authored. What was the socio-economi…
City of Lights: The Lamps of Roman and Byzantine Jerusalem
This article examines the ceramic oil lamps of Jerusalem during the Roman and Byzantine eras (63 b.c.e. to 640 c.e.). Following an overview of the importance of lamps to their ancient users and modern archaeologists, it demonstrates how the history of Jerusalem can be illuminated through the development of its lamps. This paper examines the forms, decorations, and chronology of the most prominent types — the Herodian, Decorated Discus, Beit Natti…
The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism
This book examines the origins of communal and institutional almsgiving in rabbinic Judaism. It undertakes a close reading of foundational rabbinic texts (Mishnah, Tosefta, Tannaitic Midrashim) and places their discourses on organized giving in their second to third century CE contexts. Gregg E. Gardner finds that Tannaim promoted giving through the soup kitchen (tamhui) and charity fund (quppa), which enabled anonymous and collective support for…
From the Guest Editors
Previous articleNext article FreeFrom the Guest EditorsGregg E. Gardner and Lily C. VuongGregg E. Gardner Search for more articles by this author and Lily C. Vuong Search for more articles by this author Full TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe ark of the covenant and the golden candelabrum (a.k.a. menorah) are among the many religious relic…
Light, Lamps, and Material Religion in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Recent scholarship on material religion has demonstrated how decentralizing texts, focusing on objects, and using material culture to shape our research inquiries enhances our understanding of religious traditions. This article seeks to initiate a conversation on material religion and ancient Judaism by applying methods from the former to archaeological finds from Roman-era Palestine and the numerous references to objects in late antique rabbinic…
Conspicuous Construction: New Light on Funerary Monuments in Rural Early Roman Judea from Horvat Midras
This paper discusses the growing trend in Late Hellenistic- and Early Roman-era Judea (ca. 200 b.c.e.–70 c.e.) for constructing “display tombs”—funerary architecture designed to achieve maximum visibility and project the status of the individual or family who financed the construction, not just in the cities, but also in the countryside. It uses the case study of the recently excavated pyramidal tomb marker at Horvat Midras (Israel), an affluent …
Objects, affordances, and material histories in Roman Palestine: A case study on Northern Collar-Neck Lamps and their uses in early Jewish Sources
This article seeks to contribute to the growing scholarship on object-focused Roman histories by expanding the conversation to previously overlooked archaeological finds from Roman Palestine. This case study focuses on “Northern Collar-Neck Lamps,” which have been found throughout Roman Galilee and date to the first two centuries CE. I argue that their distinctive high collar, perhaps designed to reduce spillage, also served as an affordance that…
Material Culture, Experimentation, and Household Lighting in Early Rabbinic Judaism
This paper examines how the materiality of lighting influenced the development of ancient rabbinic teachings that would later become the foundations of Jewish law. Drawing on ideas and frameworks from scholarship on material religion, I bring together archaeological finds, experimental archaeology, and references to objects in classical rabbinic literature to argue that the ways that lighting was used provided the earliest rabbis with tools and f…
Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism, by Benjamin D. Gordon
Rural adaptation and settlement change in the late Islamic Jabal al-Khalīl (Judean Foothills)
This study examines the transformation of rural settlement in the Shephelah region of Ottoman Palestine as a reflection of communal adaptation to changes in the political and security landscapes. Focusing on Khirbet Drūsye (Horvat Midras), we integrate archaeological evidence with Ottoman fiscal surveys and Sharia court registers to trace the site's transition from a prosperous Mamluk-era village to a seasonal habitation ( ʿizbeh ) by the 1550s. …
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