Building Jewish In The Roman East
Publisher: Baylor University
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781932792010
Subjects: Asian archaeology; Synagogue architecture; History - General History; Archaeology; Social Science; Sociology; Palestine; Israel; Antiquities & Archaeology; History - General; Jewish - Ancient; Synagogues; Ancient - Rome; Antiquities; Architecture and religion
First sentence: While the connections between religion and architecture are often noted, much of the interest in the two together has been either in the aesthetics or in the history of the development of religious buildings.
Description: "Archaeology has unearthed the glories of ancient Jewish buildings throughout the Mediterranean, but what has remained shrouded is what these buildings meant. Building Jewish sheds fresh light by surveying the architecture of small rural villages in Galilee in the early Roman period before examining the development of synagogues as "Jewish associations." Building Jewish also explores Jerusalem's flurry of construction under Herod the Great in the first century BCE. Richardson's work documents the culture that forms the background to any study of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity and demonstrates how architecture itself, like a text, conveys meaning."--BOOK JACKET.