Religion and Society in Roman Palestine : Old Questions, New Approaches

by Edwards, Douglas R.

• ISBN13: 9780203409565
• ISBN10: 0203409566
• Copyright: 2004-08-05
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

A collection of papers focussing on the contributions made by archaeology to the understanding of society in Palestine in the Roman period. The papers enable the two ways of evidence to interact in an unprecedented way.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
Abbreviations	p. xix
Constructing the World of Roman Palestine	p. 1
First Century Jewish Galilee	p. 7
Jewish Settlement in the Southeastern Hula Valley in the First Century Ce	p. 28
The Galilean Response to Earliest Christianity	p. 37
Language and Writing in Early Roman Galilee	p. 49
Dionysos and Herakles in Galilee	p. 56
The First-Century Synagogue	p. 70
City Coins and Roman Power in Palestine	p. 103
Imagined Households	p. 113
Gender, Difference, and Everyday Life	p. 129
Why Scroll Jars?	p. 146
Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 162
Opening Up Our View	p. 170
Index	p. 189
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