International conference proceedings. 1 German, 20 English contributions. Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-498) and index.
Contents:
A region in transition: introducing religion, ethnicity and identity in ancient Galilee / Jürgen Zangenberg -- Galilean studies: old issues and new questions / Sean Freyne -- Licht über dem Galiläa der Völker: Die Fortschreibung von Jes 9:1-2 in der LXX / Martin Karrer -- Re-presenting Galilean identity: Josephus's use of 1 Maccabees 10:25-45 and the term Ioudaios / Timothy Luckritz Marquis -- Non-Jewish authors on Galilee / Silvia Cappelletti -- The epigraphic habit of Hellenistic and Roman Galilee / Mark A. Chancey -- Personal names and ethnic hybridity in late ancient Galilee: the data from Beth She'arim / Michael Peppard -- Distribution maps of archaeological data from the Galilee: an attempt to establish zones indicative of ethnicity and religious affiliation / Mordechai Aviam -- The inhabitants of Galilee in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods: probes into the archaeological and literary evidence / Milton Moreland -- The Huleh Valley from the Iron Age to the Muslim Period: a study in settlement history / Wolfgang Zwickel -- Supporting evidence for a first-century Bethsaida / Carl Savage -- New excavations in Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic Tiberias / Yizhar Hirschfeld and Katharina Galor -- Architecture, conflict, and identity formation: Jews and Christians in Capernaum from the first to the sixth century / Anders Runesson -- Did Galilee decline in the fifth century? The synagogue at Chorazin reconsidered / Jodi Magness -- Message and minting: the coins of Herod Antipas in their Second Temple context as a source for understanding the religio-political and socio-economic dynamics of early first century Galilee / Morten Hørning Jensen -- Small change? Coins and weights as a mirror of ethnic, religious and political identity in first and second century C.E. Tiberias / Marcus Sigismund -- Roman imperial cult in the Galilee: structures, functions, and dynamics / Monika Bernett -- Identity and social location in Roman Galilean villages / Douglas R. Edwards -- Priests, purities, and the Jews of Galilee / Stuart S. Miller -- The archaeology of rabbinic literature and the study of Jewish-Christian relations in late antiquity: a methodological evaluation / Joshua Ezra Burns -- Music culture in Roman-Byzantine Sepphoris / Mira Waner -- Gadara and the Galilee / Thomas M. Weber.
Series:
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 0512-1604 ; 210
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