Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
תרביץ
Angaben zur Quelle:
פו, א (תשעט) 5-37
Keywords:
Wine and wine making History
;
Mustard
;
Material culture History
;
Inscriptions, Hebrew
;
Names, Personal History
;
Eretz Israel History 586 B.C.-70 A.D., Exilic and Second Temple period
;
Jerusalem (Israel) Antiquities, Roman
Abstract:
The paper discusses the mustard plant and its place in the material culture of the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic and, most notably, the Roman period. The unique characteristics of the plant, its pungency and the minute size of its seeds, made it a common motif in the genre of parable in the ancient East and the Mediterranean basin, as well as in the rabbinical literature. The beginning of the paper illustrates the mustard and its uses, with an emphasis on Mishnah, Shabbat 20.2. The focus of the discussion is the clarification of the term מסננת חרדל של and its association with Roman viniculture. Accordingly, the terms חרדלי יין and יין גורדלי are discussed. On the basis of this analysis the final part of the paper is devoted to the origin of the Hebrew word חרדל .Consequently the name Ardala/חרדלא, which occurs in the accounts of Flavius Josephus and in a recently discovered Aramaic inscription in Jerusalem, is elucidated and set in its historical and social context of the late Second Temple period.
Note:
With an English abstract.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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