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Religion and society in Roman Palestine : old questions, new approaches / edited by Douglas R. Edwards.

Contributor(s): Edwards, Douglas R
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Routledge, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xix, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415305977 (alk. paper); 9780415305976 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D | Jews -- Palestine -- Social conditions | Galilee (Israel) -- Civilization | Palestine -- Social conditions | Palestine -- Antiquities | Qumran communityDDC classification: 933/.05 LOC classification: DS122 | .R44 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Martin Goodman -- Constructing the world of Roman Palestine: an introduction / Douglas R. Edwards -- First century Jewish Galilee: an archaeological perspective / Mordechai Aviam -- Jewish settlement in the southeastern Hula Valley in the first century C.E. / Idan Shaked, Dina Avshalom-Gorni -- The Galilean response to earliest Christianity: a cross-cultural study of the subsistence ethic / Milton Moreland -- Language and writing in early Roman Galilee : social location of a potter's abecedary from Khirbet Qana / Esther Eshel, Douglas R. Edwards -- Dionysos and Herakles in Galilee : the Sepphoris mosaic in context / Sean Freyne -- The first-century synagogue: critical reassessments and assessments of the critical / Lee Levine -- City coins and Roman power in Palestine : from Pompey to the Great Revolt / Mark Chancey -- Imagined households / Cynthia Baker -- Gender, difference and everyday life : the case of weaving and its tools / Miriam Peskowitz -- Why scroll jars? / Jodi Magness -- Qumran and the Dead Sea scrolls : the contention of twelve theories / Magen Broshi, Hanan Eshel -- Opening up our view : Khirbet Qumran in a regional perspective / Jurgen Zangenberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Martin Goodman -- Constructing the world of Roman Palestine: an introduction / Douglas R. Edwards -- First century Jewish Galilee: an archaeological perspective / Mordechai Aviam -- Jewish settlement in the southeastern Hula Valley in the first century C.E. / Idan Shaked, Dina Avshalom-Gorni -- The Galilean response to earliest Christianity: a cross-cultural study of the subsistence ethic / Milton Moreland -- Language and writing in early Roman Galilee : social location of a potter's abecedary from Khirbet Qana / Esther Eshel, Douglas R. Edwards -- Dionysos and Herakles in Galilee : the Sepphoris mosaic in context / Sean Freyne -- The first-century synagogue: critical reassessments and assessments of the critical / Lee Levine -- City coins and Roman power in Palestine : from Pompey to the Great Revolt / Mark Chancey -- Imagined households / Cynthia Baker -- Gender, difference and everyday life : the case of weaving and its tools / Miriam Peskowitz -- Why scroll jars? / Jodi Magness -- Qumran and the Dead Sea scrolls : the contention of twelve theories / Magen Broshi, Hanan Eshel -- Opening up our view : Khirbet Qumran in a regional perspective / Jurgen Zangenberg.

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