1st Edition

Roman-Period and Byzantine Nazareth and its Hinterland

By Ken Dark Copyright 2020
220 Pages 32 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 32 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 32 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Roman-Period and Byzantine Nazareth and its Hinterland presents a new social and economic interpretation of Roman-period and Byzantine Nazareth and its hinterland as a whole, showing the transformation of a Roman-period Jewish village into a major Byzantine Christian pilgrimage centre. Although Nazareth is one of the most famous places in the world, this is the first book on Roman-period and... Read more

List of illustrations

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgements

  1. Introduction: purpose and perspectives
  2. Texts and topography: Nazareth in context
  3. A liminal landscape? Living between Nazareth and Sepphoris in the Roman and Byzantine periods
  4. A divided land: interpreting the landscape
  5. Jewish village to Christian pilgrimage centre: Nazareth in the Roman and Byzantine periods
  6. Beneath the basilica: the Church of the Annunciation site
  7. Reinterpreting Roman and Byzantine Nazareth

Appendix 1. Survey data

Appendix 2. Glass vessels from Nazareth in Western European and North American collections

Biography

Ken Dark has a PhD in Archaeology and History from the University of Cambridge and was Director of the Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at the University of Reading for 15 years. Currently Associate Professor in Archaeology and History at Reading, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute, the author of numerous academic books and papers on archaeology and history, and has directed many archaeological excavations and surveys in Europe and the Middle East.