1st Edition
Religion and Society in Roman Palestine Old Questions, New Approaches
Edited By Douglas R. Edwards
Copyright 2004
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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This collection of papers combines important archaeological and textual evidence to examine diverse aspects of religion and society in Roman Palestine.
A range of international experts provide an unprecedented look at issues of acculturation, assimilation and the preservation of difference in the multicultural climate of Palestine in the Roman period.
Key themes include:
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List of illustrations, List of contributors, Foreword MARTIN GOODMAN, Acknowledgments, List of abbreviations, 1 Constructing the world of Roman Palestine: an introduction, 2 First century Jewish Galilee: an archaeological perspective, 3 Jewish settlement in the southeastern Hula Valley in the first century CE, 4 The Galilean response to earliest Christianity: a cross-cultural study of the subsistence ethic, 5 Language and writing in early Roman Galilee: social location of a potter’s abecedary from Khirbet Qana, 6 Dionysos and Herakles in Galilee: the Sepphoris mosaic in context, 7 The first-century synagogue: critical reassessments and assessments of the critical, 8 City coins and Roman power in Palestine: from Pompey to the Great Revolt, 9 Imagined households, 10 Gender, difference, and everyday life: the case of weaving and its tools, 11 Why scroll jars?, 12 Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: the contention of twelve theories, 13 Opening up our view: Khirbet Qumran in a regional perspective, Index
Biography
The author is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Puget Sound. He has directed or co-directed excavations at Khirbet Qana and Yodefat/Jotapata in Israel and Chresonesos in the Ukraine. Past publications include Religion and Power: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greek East and an edited volume entitled Archaeology and the Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Greco-Roman and Byzantine Periods.
