"Taken as a whole, Fine’s book exhibits the value of bridging disciplines. The historiographical segments integrated throughout this volume offer essential insights that will inform any student of Roman and late antiquity." - Yael Wilfand, Hebrew University, in: Review of Biblical Literature, 2014
"[...] Fine’s book is an important contribution to the ongoing conversation on multiple symbolic systems in late antique Judaism and their possible meanings, a conversation that shows no signs of ending any time soon." - Alexei M. Sivertsev, DePaul University, in: IMAGES, 8 (2015)
"This brilliant collection of twelve fascinating essays is beautifully adorned with over 64 carefully chosen illustrations revealing a highly developed aesthetic sense. [...] There is a balanced, judicious care in his tight scholarly writing that takes the reader back into the past not as a dry artifact to learn “about,” but “from” as it relates to the reader’s lived reality. [...] Recommended for all libraries." - David B Levy, Touro College, in: Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, 4:2 (2014)
"Fine hat sein Versprechen, "to project flesh and blood into three-dimensional spaces" nicht nur für die "lost world in which those people thrived" eingelöst, sondern auch für den modernen wissenschaflichen Diskurs, den er selbst mit der vorliegenden Aufsatzsammlung [...] mit großem Erfolg befördert hat." – Jürgen Zangenberg, Leiden, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)