Did a Craftsmen’s Guild in Ancient Jerusalem Identify Itself with a Figure from Greek Legend?

The workers’ unions of today had ancient predecessors known as workers’ guilds, which helped groups of tradespeople—merchants, writers, artisans—negotiate for pay and represent themselves to the wider body politic. (Modern universities are in part a result of worker’s guilds; some of them, like the University of Bologna, originated as guilds of students.) Going by a recent archaeological discovery, there may even have existed a guild of craftsmen in ancient Jerusalem whose members identified themselves with the legendary Greek craftsman Daedalus.