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cistern Breytenbach and Tzavella (2022), Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas, 7, 71
Faßbeck and Killebrew (2016), Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology: VeHinnei Rachel - Essays in honor of Rachel Hachlili, 414, 417, 418
cistern, basilica Klein and Wienand (2022), City of Caesar, City of God: Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity, 215
cistern, binbirdirek Klein and Wienand (2022), City of Caesar, City of God: Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity, 144
cistern, complex, qumran Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 265
cistern, educational metaphor Hirshman (2009), The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture, 100 C, 7, 44, 69, 76, 115, 119
cistern, merot, stepped Levine (2005), The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years, 334
cistern, miqveh, ritual bath, stepped Levine (2005), The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years, 32, 55, 63, 72, 75, 76, 114, 296, 333, 334, 335, 642
cistern, near entrance, athens asklepieion Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 153, 185
cistern, stepped Levine (2005), The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years, 55, 63, 333, 334
cisterns Eliav (2023), A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean, 22
Klein and Wienand (2022), City of Caesar, City of God: Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity, 144, 162, 166, 169, 215

List of validated texts:
1 validated results for "cisterns"
1. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 2.129 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Merot, stepped cistern • cistern • cistern, stepped • miqveh (ritual bath, stepped cistern)

 Found in books: Faßbeck and Killebrew (2016), Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology: VeHinnei Rachel - Essays in honor of Rachel Hachlili, 414; Levine (2005), The Ancient Synagogue, The First Thousand Years, 63, 334

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2.129 καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα πρὸς ἃς ἕκαστοι τέχνας ἴσασιν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπιμελητῶν διαφίενται, καὶ μέχρι πέμπτης ὥρας ἐργασάμενοι συντόνως πάλιν εἰς ἓν συναθροίζονται χωρίον, ζωσάμενοί τε σκεπάσμασιν λινοῖς οὕτως ἀπολούονται τὸ σῶμα ψυχροῖς ὕδασιν, καὶ μετὰ ταύτην τὴν ἁγνείαν εἰς ἴδιον οἴκημα συνίασιν, ἔνθα μηδενὶ τῶν ἑτεροδόξων ἐπιτέτραπται παρελθεῖν: αὐτοί τε καθαροὶ καθάπερ εἰς ἅγιόν τι τέμενος παραγίνονται τὸ δειπνητήριον.'' None
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2.129 After this every one of them are sent away by their curators, to exercise some of those arts wherein they are skilled, in which they labor with great diligence till the fifth hour. After which they assemble themselves together again into one place; and when they have clothed themselves in white veils, they then bathe their bodies in cold water. And after this purification is over, they every one meet together in an apartment of their own, into which it is not permitted to any of another sect to enter; while they go, after a pure manner, into the dining-room, as into a certain holy temple,'' None



Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.