The Emmaus Mystery Discovering Evidence for the Risen Christ

by Thiede, Carsten Peter; D'Ancona, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780826480675
• ISBN10: 0826480675
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

For centuries scholars have tried to work out where Emmaus was. Where, in other words, the risen Christ walked, ate and revealed himself. It is a crucial location in the map of Christian belief, and one of the great missing links of Christian archaeology,

Table of Contents

Introduction by Matthew d'Ancona	1	(10)
1 Trusting the Sources	11	(13)
2 Looking for Emmaus: How the Traces were Lost and Rediscovered	24	(55)
Walking the line: Roads and travellers at the time of Jesus	24	(5)
Power games, or: How not to choose a biblical site	29	(10)
Stones of contention	39	(14)
Rabbis and Bishops: Representing Emmaus	53	(5)
Searching with the Crusaders	58	(10)
A rescue operation: The Franciscan circle	68	(11)
3 People of Action: Jesus and Those Who Saw Him	79	(23)
The myth appeal	79	(13)
Luke the eyewitness?	92	(10)
4 Luke and Josephus — Two Historians of their Time	102	(26)
Lucky Luke: The right man in the right place	102	(10)
Finding the Messiah: Josephus the religious historian	112	(16)
5 An Emperor Joins the Fray: Vespasian's Emmaus	128	(21)
A Swiss banker's son	128	(3)
Miracles and fate	131	(6)
Evidence found and lost: Digging up Vespasian's colony	137	(12)
6 Archaeologists at Work: The Finds of Emmaus	149	(50)
The standard-bearer and the sceptre head	149	(6)
A skeleton and a Jewish-Christian tomb	155	(3)
How green was my valley — Emmaus rediscovered	158	(8)
Reassembling the jigsaw	166	(5)
Aqua Bella — the 'Beautiful Spring'	171	(6)
An earthquake and a Roman number	177	(6)
Tiumnnts, Tehina, and a fresh assault	183	(3)
Nile perch, eggshells, and the first century	186	(13)
7 Epilogue: Jewish and Christian History — Emmaus, a Site of the Risen Christ	199