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THE ISRAEL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY |
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The Israel Numismatic Society needs a home! An acceptable alternative would be the long term loan of an appropriate building. If any society member has connections with educational institutions or local government in Israel that could offer such a facility, please mobilize your connection!
If you can provide any assistance regarding this matter
- even if it's just to offer advice - please contact me.
INS - Tel Aviv Branch Book on Ancient Jewish and modern Israeli coins in Chinese!
Conference: Judaea and Rome in Coins, 65 BCE to 135 CE, London, 13-14 September 2010
Sponsors: Spink & Son and the Institute of Jewish Studies, UCL Titles and Speakers (in alphabetical order of the speakers)
1. Hadrian’s Visit to Judaea and Its Impact on Local Coinages Michel Amandry 2. Roman Influence on Jewish Coins Rachel Barkay 3. The Herodian Coinage Viewed against the Wider Perspective of Roman Coinage Andrew Burnett 4. The Silver Coinage of Roman Arabia Kevin Butcher 5. The Cornucopiae Dupondii of Vespasian: Not Commagene but Not Syria Either Ted Buttrey 6. The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways between Judaism and Chrsitianity, Marius Heemstra 7. Jewish Coinage of the Two Wars – Aims and Meaning David Hendin 8. Hadrian as Nero Redivivus: Some Numismatic Evidence Larry Kreitzer 9. The Chronology of Pontius Pilate and New Numismatic and Archaeolmetallurgical Evidence Kenneth Lonnqvist 10. What was the Tribute Penny? Sam Moorhead 11. Politics, Economy and Ethnicity: Coin Circulation in Early Roman Galilee Danny Syon 12. A Newly Discovered Bar Kochba Coin Hoard Boaz Zissu
Hanan Eshel In Memoriam 1958-2010
The eminent historian and archaeologist, Prof. Hanan Eshel, died in Jerusalem on April 8, 2010 after a long battle with cancer, at the age of 52. He was buried on the same day at the Ma'aleh Hahamisha cemetery. He is survived by his mother, Shulamit, his wife, Esther, and by two children and three grandsons. Eshel was a faculty member of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University and was appointed as the head of the department during 2002-2004. He also served as director of the Jesselsohn Epigraphic Center of Jewish History at the Bar Ilan University, member of the editorial boards of Yad Ben-Zvi, the Israel Exploration Society, the Israel Numismatic Journal, and the Israel Names Committee. Eshel was a distinguished expert in the history and the archaeology of the First and Second Temple Period. His fields of study cover the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran settlement, the Bar Kokhba Revolt, Numismatics and the historical-geography of Judea and Samaria during the First and Second Temple periods, among other topics. Eshel directed several archaeological excavations and surveys, including those at Ketef Jericho, where he discovered documents from the Persian and the Bar Kokhba periods, among other finds. He excavated "Me'arat Sel'a", at Nahal Hever and found the first tetradrachm of Bar Kokhba ever to be uncovered by an archaeologist. He also excavated at Yattir in southern Judea. In the last years he had led excavations at Qumran, and explored caves along the cliffs bordering the Dead Sea, from Qumran to En Gedi. A prolific writer and scholar of enormous intellectual energy, he authored and edited several scholarly books and published over 200 articles. His books include “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State” (in Hebrew and English), two volumes on "Refuge Caves of the Bar Kokhba Revolt" (in Hebrew), "The Days of the Hasmonaeans" (in Hebrew), three Carta’s Field Guides to Masada, Qumran and En Gedi (in Hebrew and English). Some of his studies were conducted and published together with his wife and faithful companion, Dr. Esther Eshel, a skilled epigraphist and lecturer in the Bible Department at Bar Ilan University. He was a man of outstanding helpfulness, amiability and charisma; He was held in the highest affection by all who knew him, and will be missed by many.
Boaz Zissu and David Amit
Dan P. Barag 1935–2009
Professor Dan P. Barag died in mid-November and was buried in Jerusalem on Sunday, November 22, 2009. He was born in 1935 in London to Gershon and Gerda Dina Barag, who were later to become well-known Freudian psychoanalysts. Dan grew up in Tel Aviv, where he first developed his interest in archaeology. He was probably the youngest member of the staff excavating in Tell Hazor, the first large Israeli archaeological expedition after the state’s independence. Following military service, Dan moved to Jerusalem in 1956 and began his studies in archaeology at the Hebrew University. He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1970, on glass vessels in ancient Palestine. Field archaeologists still consider this unpublished work the best reference on the subject. Dan’s extensive publications on the history of ancient glass made him well known and he also served a term as vice-president of the Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre. His greatest work in the field was his Catalogue of Western Asiatic Glass in the British Museum (1985). Dan maintained interests in other subjects, however. He conducted a number of archaeological excavations on behalf of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums, and later headed a joint expedition of four institutions at the synagogue at Ein Gedi. He studied and published finds from more than a dozen excavations by others; examples are Ashdod, Hanita, Nahariya and Masada. In 1970 Dan joined the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University, where he taught until his retirement in 2003. His many courses focused on the material culture of the southern Levant from the classical period onwards, and included Hellenistic through Byzantine ceramic lamps, ancient glass, and burial customs. Dan also edited the Israel Exploration Journal between 1973 and 1975 and wrote more than 150 scholarly articles and chapters in books published both in Israel and abroad, on historical geography, tomb architecture and burial practices, Jewish art, and, of course, numismatics. Dan’s interest in numismatics saw expression very early. His first published article, written when he was still in his mid-twenties, was on this subject. He had established himself as a force in this field well before 1975, when he took over the helm of the Israel Numismatic Society, following Arie Kindler and serving as chairman/president of the INS for some thirty years. The INS’s English language publication, the Israel Numismatic Journal, had published a (third) volume in 1965/1966, but nothing had appeared since. Dan rose to the occasion and reconstituted the journal, becoming its editor. The first INJ after the hiatus was published in 1980 (volume 4). Dan continued to serve as its editor until his death, almost to the completion of volume 17. In many respects this was a one-man operation, with Dan recruiting articles, supervising the journal’s finances and production, and also arranging for its sale. In addition, Dan himself wrote an impressive 22 articles for the journal. Even before his retirement, the INJ had become one of his primary concerns. Dan’s coin expertise did not fall short of his achievements in other fields. His many numismatic articles covered a plethora of subjects, from the Hellenistic, Hasmonean and Herodian periods, through the time of the Bar Kokhba revolt, up to the era of the Latin Kingdom in Jerusalem. They also included the fields related to numismatics, such as bullae and scale weights. Dan had an admirable combination of scholarship and good humor. He was an active participant at the monthly meetings of the Jerusalem branch of the INS, regularly lecturing and, when not, contributing to the discussions from his almost photographic memory. Dan enjoyed sharing his knowledge of the history of the INS and of the Jerusalem archaeological scene. The intellectual rigor which characterized him will ensure that his memory will be as enduring as the ancient coins he studied. |
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