Travel and Religion in Antiquity

Preface

xi Preface The chapters in this volume represent the first fruits of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies’Travel and Religion inAntiquity seminar, which began in the Spring of 2005. I would like to thank the members of that seminar and others in the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (CSBS) who made the seminar a success during my years coordinating it. Several research assistants provided valuable assistance at various stages of this project: Angela Brkich, Sacha Mathew, and Daniel Bernard (Concordia University); Agnes Choi (University of Toronto); and William den Hollander II (York University). This volume is dedicated to Susan Haber, whose untimely passing in July 2006 deeply affected all who knew her, including her colleagues in the CSBS. Her contribution to the seminar shortly before her death, which appears in this volume, begins to show how we have lost a promising scholar. I would like to thank the Society of Biblical Literature for permission to include a revised version of Susan Haber’s contribution, “Going up to Jerusalem,” which originally appeared in Susan Haber and Adele Reinhartz, eds., “They Shall Purify Themselves”: Essays on Purity in Early Judaism (Early Judaism and Its Literature, 24; Leiden: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008). xii P R E FAC E This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. ...