Bathing Jewish, Bathing Greek: Developing an Approach to De-Categorising Hellenism and Judaism

Recent works on the categorisation of ancient Judaism have begun to call into question division between and Hellenism, often reified as two distinct cultural spheres, even scholars seek explain texts artefacts which show elements traditionally ascribed either or Hellenism. These theoretical formulations made some impact in discussion Jewish but so far failed be fully appreciated archaeological architectural scholarship. This article will present Magdala bathhouse (Galilee) an example forces us re-evaluate construction It proposes that we should view integral part any output interpreted a full participant definition