Caesarea And The Middle Coast

The second volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae covers the inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima and the coastal region of the Middle Coast from Tel Aviv in the south to Haifa in the north from the time of Alexander to the Muslim conquest. The approx. 1,050 texts comprise all the languages used for inscriptions during this period (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan, Syrian, and Persian) and are arranged according to the principal settlements and their territory.

The great majority of the texts belongs to Caesarea, the capital of the province of Judaea/Syria Palaestina. No other place in Judaea has produced more Latin inscriptions than this area, reflecting the strong Roman influence on the city. Review: A project has been undertaken in recent years which will influence studies on ancient Palestine for decades to come. [...] users of the CIIRP [...] are satisfied and grateful to the editorial teams, both in Israel and Germany, for producing such a valuable contribution to the scholarly study of ancient Palestine.

They congratulate the de Gruyter publishers of Berlin for bringing out such a handsome series. Zdzislaw J. Kapera in: The Polish Journal of Biblical Research 14,1-2/2015 Diesen wenigen Beobachtungen [...] ist bereits zu entnehmen, dass dieser Band eine wahre Fundgrube ist. Matthias Morgenstern in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 6/2013 The individual entries adhere to very high standards of clarity and user-friendliness. [...] As demonstrated by both Volumes I and II, the collection of and commentary on the full range of epigraphy is a great boon to scholarship.

While most of the texts for Jerusalem and its immediate environs have been previously published, the assembly of the material from very disparate sources is a major achievement in itself. Benet Salway in: Journal of Roman Studies 104/2014