Douglas R. Edwards (ed.)

Religion and Society in Roman Palestine

Old Questions, New Approaches
Herausgeber: Edwards, Douglas R

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780415305976
• ISBN-10: 0415305977
• Artikelnr.: 20950240

Autorenporträt

The author is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Puget Sound. He has directed or co-directed excavations at Khirbet Qana and Yodefat/Jotapata in Israel and Chresonesos in the Ukraine. Past publications include Religion and Power: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greek East and an edited volume entitled Archaeology and the Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Greco-Roman and Byzantine Periods.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Foreword MARTIN GOODMAN
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1 Constructing the world of Roman Palestine: an introduction
2 First century Jewish Galilee: an archaeological perspective
3 Jewish settlement in the southeastern Hula Valley in the first century CE
4 The Galilean response to earliest Christianity: a cross-cultural study of the subsistence ethic
5 Language and writing in early Roman Galilee: social location of a potter's abecedary from Khirbet Qana
6 Dionysos and Herakles in Galilee: the Sepphoris mosaic in context
7 The first-century synagogue: critical reassessments and assessments of the critical
8 City coins and Roman power in Palestine: from Pompey to the Great Revolt
9 Imagined households
10 Gender
difference
and everyday life: the case of weaving and its tools
11 Why scroll jars?
12 Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: the contention of twelve theories
13 Opening up our view: Khirbet Qumran in a regional perspective
Index