Joseph Scales

• Scales, Joseph (2024). Galilean Spaces of Identity: Judaism and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-69254-1. 420 s.

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• Scales, Joseph (2024). Fighting Talk: Motivating Violence in Ancient Judaism.
• Scales, Joseph (2023). Conflict and Identity in ancient Judaism. [Internett]. https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-war/podcasts/. Vis sammendrag

  In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Joseph Scales, a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Religion, Philosophy and History at the University of Agder in Norway. Joe’s doctoral research analysed spaces of Jewish identity in ancient Galilee, looking particularly at the impact of material culture on personal, communal and regional identity formation during the Hasmonean dynasty, from 100 BCE onwards. His book Galiliean Spaces of Identity will be published in 2024. Joe’s work on Jewish and Hellenistic identities, and their cross-cultural interactions, has led to further research on ancient Jewish texts written in Greek, which enable us to understand aspects of the shared culture of the ancient Mediterranean world; and he has become very interested in women’s practices and rituals in Judaism. Both of these research interests feed into his current project, called Fighting Talk: Motivating Violence in Ancient Judaism, which examines the nature of pre-battle speeches in ancient Jewish texts and their relationship to established forms of pre-battle exhortation in Greek and Roman sources. Because the politics of the region in this period are so complex, we have recorded a Part 1 and a Part 2 for this podcast. In this episode, Part 1, Joe talks us through Jewish interactions with other groups and political powers in the region from around 175BCE to the early 2nd century CE – to help us understand the history of Judea and Jerusalem, and the ways in which ongoing conflict (near and far) shaped Jewish practice and identity, not just at the time but for many centuries afterwards. In Part 2 (which we hope you will also listen to, because it’s super interesting!), Joe dives deep into some of the textual sources from the period, looking particularly at the ways in which they visualised battle itself and justified war.

• Scales, Joseph (2023). Visualising action: pre-battle speeches in ancient Judaism. [Internett]. https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-war/podcasts/. Vis sammendrag

  In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Joseph Scales, a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Religion, Philosophy and History at the University of Agder in Norway. This podcast is the second part of a pair looking at the history and representation of conflict in ancient Judea. In part 1, Conflict and Identity in Ancient Judaism, Joe gave us a whirlwind tour of a whole series of conflicts that shaped Jewish history from around 175 BCE through to the early second century CE – looking particularly at their impact on Jewish nationhood and identity formation. That conversation provides really useful context for this epsiode, which dives deep into some of the textual sources for Jewish conflict history in antiquity. Joe draws particularly on his current research project, called Fighting Talk: Motivating Violence in Ancient Judaism, which examines the nature of pre-battle speeches in ancient Jewish texts and their relationship to established forms of pre-battle exhortation in Greek and Roman sources. As Joe has written: ‘People resort to violence for all kinds of reasons. In the interests of peace, it is essential to understand how people may be incited toward organised violence. …In warfare, combatants are often incited towards their actions by others, and in the ancient world, such incitement frequently took the form of a pre-battle speech: Greek, Roman and Jewish literature contains many examples.’ In unpicking a wide range of ancient pre-battle speeches, and exploring recurring components (such as the othering of enemies, claims about the just or necessary nature of upcoming violence, a commander’s handling of his soldiers’ fears, and visualisations of success), Joe’s research contributes not only to a deeper understanding of how warfare was conceptualised and driven in antiquity but also to wider reflections on how organised violence can be conceptualised, justified and incited today.

• Scales, Joseph (2023). The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations. Ancient Jew Review (AJR). ISSN 2769-4860.
• Scales, Joseph (2023). The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine: Current Issues and Emerging Trends, edited by Rick Bonnie, Raimo Hakola, and Ulla Tervahauta; Synagogues in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: Archaeological Finds, New Methods, New Theories, edited by Lutz Doering and Andrew R. Krause. Journal for the Study of Judaism. ISSN 0047-2212. doi: 10.1163/15700631-12511381.
• Scales, Joseph; Gwyther, Katherine; DeVries, Michael & Gimse, Ingrid Breilid (2022). Dead Sea Scrolls in the Modern Era: Provenance and Forgery, Part 2. [Internett]. Ancient Afterlives (Podcast).
• Scales, Joseph; Gimse, Ingrid Breilid; Gwyther, Katherine & DeVries, Michael (2021). Dead Sea Scrolls in the Modern Era: Provenance and Forgery, Part 1. [Internett]. Ancient Afterlives (Podcast).

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