Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods: The transformation from Galil Ha-Goyim to Jewish Galilee: the archaeological testimony of an ethnic change

Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods: The transformation from Galil Ha-Goyim to Jewish Galilee: the archaeological testimony of an ethnic change
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Synopsis Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods: The transformation from Galil Ha-Goyim to Jewish Galilee: the archaeological testimony of an ethnic change by : David A. Fiensy

Volume 1: "Drawing on the expertise of archaeologists, historians, biblical scholars, and social-science interpreters who have devoted a significant amount of time and energy in the research of ancient Galilee, this accessible volume includes modern general studies of Galilee and of Galilean history, as well as specialized studies on taxation, ethnicity, religious practices, road systems, trade and markets, education, health, village life, houses, and the urban-rural divide."--

Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods, Volume 2

Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods, Volume 2
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Publisher : Fortress Press
Total Pages : 502
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ISBN-10 : 9781506401959
ISBN-13 : 1506401953
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Synopsis Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods, Volume 2 by : David A Fiensy

This second of two volumes on Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods focuses on the site excavations of towns and villages and what these excavations may tell us about the history of settlement in this important period. The important site at Sepphoris is treated with four short articles, while the rest of the articles focus on a single site and include site plans, diagrams, maps, photographs of artifacts and structures, and extensive bibliographic listings. The articles in the volume have been written by an international group of experts on Galilee in this period: Christians, Jews, and secular scholars, many of whom are also regular participants in the twenty site excavations featured in the volume. The volume also features detailed maps of Galilee, a gallery of color images, timelines related to the period, and helpful indices. Together with Volume 1: Life, Culture, and Society, this volume provides the latest word of these topics for the expert and nonexpert alike.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology
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Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages : 724
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ISBN-10 : 9780199369041
ISBN-13 : 0199369046
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Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology by : David K. Pettegrew

"This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research."--

Credit and Usury in Jewish Society in the Mishnah and Talmud

Credit and Usury in Jewish Society in the Mishnah and Talmud
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9789004681965
ISBN-13 : 9004681965
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Synopsis Credit and Usury in Jewish Society in the Mishnah and Talmud by : Ben Zion Rosenfeld

Credit is the oxygen of every society. In many cases we wonder why the rabbis prohibit certain business credit transactions considering them usury. The writer uses literary and epigraphic sources to decipher the rabbinic approach. This book shows how rabbinic legislation innovatively expand the Torah prohibition of usury in loans to all fields of credit. It is a pioneering inquiry regarding rabbinic literature compiled under Roman and Sasanid rule, helping to fill the void in research concerning credit. It also distinguishes various kinds of credit differentiating credit of money for money, or products, exposing the ramifications of the rabbinic legislation.

Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods, Volume 1

Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods, Volume 1
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Publisher : Fortress Press
Total Pages : 450
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ISBN-10 : 9781451489583
ISBN-13 : 1451489587
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Synopsis Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods, Volume 1 by : James Riley Strange

Drawing on the expertise of archaeologists, historians, biblical scholars, and social-science interpreters who have devoted a significant amount of time and energy in the research of ancient Galilee, this accessible volume includes modern general studies of Galilee and of Galilean history, as well as specialized studies on taxation, ethnicity, religious practices, road systems, trade and markets, education, health, village life, houses, and the urban-rural divide. This resource includes a rich selection of images, figures, charts, and maps.

John within Judaism

John within Judaism
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 357
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ISBN-10 : 9789004462946
ISBN-13 : 9004462945
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Synopsis John within Judaism by : Wally V. Cirafesi

In John within Judaism Wally V. Cirafesi offers a reading of the Gospel of John as an expression of the fluid and flexible nature of Jewish ethnic identity in Greco-Roman antiquity.

Galilean Spaces of Identity

Galilean Spaces of Identity
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 423
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ISBN-10 : 9789004692558
ISBN-13 : 900469255X
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Synopsis Galilean Spaces of Identity by : Joseph Scales

We understand the world around us in terms of built spaces. Such spaces are shaped by human activity, and in turn, affect how people live. Through an analysis of archaeological and textual evidence from the beginnings of Hasmonean influence in Galilee, until the outbreak of the First Jewish War against Rome, this book explores how Judaism was socially expressed: bodily, communally, and regionally. Within each expression, certain aspects of Jewish identity operate, these being purity conceptions, communal gatherings, and Galilee's relationship with the Hasmoneans, Jerusalem, and the Temple in its final days.

The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE

The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9783110787481
ISBN-13 : 3110787482
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Synopsis The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE by : John Van Maaren

Recent research has considered how changing imperial contexts influence conceptions of Jewishness among ruling elites (esp. Eckhardt, Ethnos und Herrschaft, 2013). This study integrates other, often marginal, conceptions with elite perspectives. It uses the ethnic boundary making model, an empirically based sociological model, to link macro-level characteristics of the social field with individual agency in ethnic construction. It uses a wide range of written sources as evidence for constructions of Jewishness and relates these to a local-specific understanding of demographic and institutional characteristics, informed by material culture. The result is a diachronic study of how institutional changes under Seleucid, Hasmonean, and Early Roman rule influenced the ways that members of the ruling elite, retainer class, and marginalized groups presented their preferred visions of Jewishness. These sometimes-competing visions advance different strategies to maintain, rework, or blur the boundaries between Jews and others. The study provides the next step toward a thick description of Jewishness in antiquity by introducing needed systematization for relating written sources from different social strata with their contexts.

Time of Troubles

Time of Troubles
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Publisher : Fortress Press
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9781506406329
ISBN-13 : 1506406327
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Synopsis Time of Troubles by : Roland Boer

Economic realities have been increasingly at the center of discussion of the New Testament and early church. Studies have tended to be either apologetic in tone, or haphazard with regard to economic theory, or both‒‒either imagining the ancients as involved in “primitive” economic relationships, or else projecting the modern capitalist preoccupation with markets and the enterprising individual back onto first-century realities. Roland Boer and Christina Petterson blaze a new trail, relying on the expansive work on the Roman economy of G. E. M. de Ste. Croix (who was relatively uninterested in the New Testament, however) and on the theoretical framework of the Regulation school. Theoretically flexible and responsive to historical data, Regulation theory gives appropriate regard to the centrality of agriculture in the ancient world and finds economic instability to be the norm, except for brief episodes of imposed stability. Boer and Petterson find the Roman world in crisis as slavery expands, transforming the agricultural economy so that slave estates could supply the needs of the polis. Successive chapters describe aspects of the economic crisis in the first century and turn at last to understand the ideological role played by nascent Christianity.