Religious Texts and Material Contexts

by Strange, James F.; Neusner, Jacob

• ISBN13: 9780761820628
• ISBN10: 0761820620
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-17
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

No problem so vexes learning as how to balance the claims of the written record of humanity against the actualities of man's material detritus. Religious Texts and Material Contexts brings together scholars of the written record and those of the material realm beyond, especially those working in the academic study of religion. This book examines the relationship between archaeology and text-scholarship through religion featuring cases of archaeology supported and not supported by written evidence.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Ancient Israel and Classical Rome
A Near Eastern Ethnic Element Among the Etruscan Elite	3	(40)
Jodi Magness
Christianity
The Archaeology of Religion at Capernaum, Synagogue and Church	43	(20)
James F. Strange
From Economic Culture to Theological Interpretation: Nazareth, Capernaum, and Jerusalem as Environments of Jesus' Teaching	63	(10)
Bruce D. Chilton
Portraying the Temple in Stone and Text: The Arch of Titus and the Epistle to the Hebrews	73	(16)
Ellen Aitken
Christianity: The Fourth Century Christian Basilica	89	(52)
James R. Strange
Judaism
It Takes a Village: Preliminary Reflections on Yodefat in the History of Judaism	141	(10)
William Scott Green
The Synagogue in Law: What the Texts Lead Us to Expect to Find	151	(34)
Jacob Neusner
Neusner's Tannaitic Synagogue in the Light of Philology & Archaeology: Response to Jacob Neusner, ``The Synagogue in Law''	175	(10)
Mayer I. Gruber
Islam
Archaeological Evidence of the Early Mosque in Arabia	185	(14)
Donald Whitcomb
Towards Islamic Archaeology	199	(20)
Katherine Strange
Asian Religions/Hinduism
Lighting the Lamps of Ghee: Inscriptions and the Reconstruction of Medieval Hinduism	219	(32)
Richard H. Davis
Response to Richard Davis' ``Lighting Lamps of Ghee: Inscriptions and the Reconstruction of Medieval Hinduism''	245	(6)
Bob Easton-Waller
North American Religions
Ancient Maya Religious Practices: Evidence from Excavation, Epigraphy, and Art	251	(24)
Traci Ardren
Violent Stones and the Great Aztec Temple: The Imagination of Matter in the City of Sacrifice	275	(20)
David Carrasco
Anglican Church-Building and the Problem of Textual Interpretation	295
Peter Williams
The Social Meanings of Church Buildings: A Response to Peter W. Williams	315
Danny Jorgensen