Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee

A Region in Transition

edited by Jurgen K. Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge and Dale B. Martin

Book cover: Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee

Extent: 509 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Biblical Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Series volume number: 210

Language: English

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(December 2007)

ISBN: 9783161490446

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What is a Galilean? What were the criteria of defining a person as a Galilean – archaeologically or with respect to literary sources such as Josephus or the rabbis? What role did religion play in the process of identity formation? Twenty-two articles based on papers read at conferences at Cambridge, Wuppertal and Yale by experts from 7 countries shed light on a complex region, the pivotal geographic and cultural context of both earliest Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. In these papers, ancient Galilee emerges as a dynamic region of continuous change, in which religion, ‘ethnicity’, and ‘identity’ were not static monoliths but had to be negotiated in the context of a multiform environment subject to different influences.

Content:Jurgen Zangenberg: A Region in Transition. Introducing Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Ancient Galilee I. The State of Affairs in Galilean Studies Sean Freyne: Galilean Studies. Old Issues and New Questions II. What is a Galilean? Modes of Defining Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Textual and Archaeological Sources Martin Karrer: Licht uber dem Galilaa der Volker. Die Fortschreibung von Jes 9:1-2 in der LXX - Timothy Luckritz Marquis: Re-Presenting Galilean Identity. Josephus' Use of 1 Maccabees 10:25-45 and the Term Ioudaios - Silvia Cappelletti: Non-Jewish Authors on Galilee - Mark A. Chancey: The Epigraphic Habit of Hellenistic and Roman Galilee - Michael Peppard: Personal Names and Ethnic Hybridity in Late Ancient Galilee. The Data From Beth She'arim - Mordechai Aviam: Distribution Maps of Archaeological Data from the Galilee. An Attempt to Establish Zones Indicative of Ethnicity and Religious Affiliation - Milton Moreland: The Inhabitants of Galilee in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods. Probes into the Archaeological and Literary Evidence III. Identity at Ground Level: New Evidence from Sites and Regions of Galilee Wolfgang Zwickel: The Huleh Valley from the Iron Age to the Muslim Period. A Study in Settlement History - Carl Savage: Supporting Evidence for a First-Century Bethsaida - Yizhar Hirschfeld and Katharina Galor: New Excavations in Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Tiberias - Anders Runesson: Architecture, Conflict, and Identity Formation. Jews and Christians in Capernaum From the 1st to the 6th Century - Jodi Magness: Did Galilee Decline in the Fifth Century? The Synagogue at Chorazin Reconsidered IV. A Region of Many Identities. Cultural Interaction and Social Relations in and with Ancient Galilee Morten Horning Jensen: Message and Minting. The Coins of Herod Antipas and Their Second Temple Context as a Source for Understanding the Religio-Political and Socio-Economical Dynamics of Early First Century Galilee - Marcus Sigismund: Small Change? Coins and Weights as a Mirror of Ethnic, Religious and Political Identity in 1st /2nd Century C.E. Tiberias - Monika Bernett: Roman Imperial Cult in the Galilee. Structures, Functions, and Dynamics - Douglas R. Edwards: Identity and Social Location in Roman Galilean Villages - Stuart S. Miller: Priests, Purities, and the Jews of the Galilee - Joshua Ezra Burns: The Archaeology of Rabbinic Literature and the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations in Late Antiquity. A Methodological Evaluation - Mira Waner: Music Culture in Ancient Sepphoris - Thomas M. Weber: Gadara and the Galilee

Edited by Harold W Attridge
Edited by Dale B Martin
Edited by Jurgen K Zangenberg

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