Hayim Lapin
Professor, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
Professor, Classics
Professor, History
hlapin@umd.edu
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Research Expertise
Ancient History
Europe
Jewish History
Hayim Lapin is the author of Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee (1995) and Economy, Geography, and Provincial History in Later Roman Palestine (2001), and is at work on a history of the early rabbinic movement. He is the editor of Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine (1998), and co-editor of Jews, Antiquity and the 19th-Century Imagination (with Dale B. Martin) and a volume in progress on the Middle East in the Byzantine Early Islamic Transition (with Kenneth Holum). He currently serves as Director of the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies.
Publications
With Lehman, M. (2019). Introduction to the Theme: The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual. AJS Review, 43(2), 265--269.
Introduction to the Theme: The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual
Author/Lead: Hayim LapinIntroduction to the Theme: The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual
Feeding the Jerusalem Temple: Cult, Hinterland, and Economy in First-Century Palestine. Journal of Ancient Judaism, 8(3), 410--453.
Feeding the Jerusalem Temple
Author/Lead: Hayim LapinAmulo, the Two Messiahs, and the Dissemination of Rabbinic Cuture. in [forthcoming Festschrift].
Amulo, the Two Messiahs, and the Dissemination of Rabbinic Cuture
Author/Lead: Hayim LapinAmulo, the Two Messiahs, and the Dissemination of Rabbinic Cuture
Population Contraction in Late Roman Galilee: Reconsidering the Evidence. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 378, 127--143.
Population Contraction in Late Roman Galilee?
Author/Lead: Hayim LapinPappus and Julianus, the Maccabaean Martyrs, and Rabbinic Martyrdom History in Late Antiquity. in Legal Engagement The reception of Roman Law and Tribunals by Jews and Other Inhabitants of the Empire. Rome: École française de Rome.
Maccabaean Martyrs, and Rabbinic Martyrdom
Author/Lead: Hayim LapinMaccabaean Martyrs, and Rabbinic Martyrdom
With M. Lehman (Ed.), The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual. AJS Review 43(2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
With Lehmann M., The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual
Author/Lead: Hayim LapinWith Lehmann M., The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual