Mark Chancey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. He is author of The Myth of a Gentile Galilee (Cambridge, 2002).
Introduction
1. Galilee's early encounter with Hellenism
2. The Roman army in Palestine
3. The introduction of Greco-Roman architecture
4. The transformation of the landscape in the second and third centuries CE
5. The use of Greek in Jesus' Galilee
6. The coinage of Galilee
7. Greco-Roman art and the shifting limits of acceptability
Conclusion.
Introduction; 1. Galilee's early encounter with Hellenism; 2. The Roman army in Palestine; 3. The introduction of Greco-Roman architecture; 4. The transformation of the landscape in the second and third centuries CE; 5. The use of Greek in Jesus' Galilee; 6. The coinage of Galilee; 7. Greco-Roman art and the shifting limits of acceptability; Conclusion.
