Religion and society in Roman Palestine
Subtitle: old questions, new approaches
By: edited by Douglas R. Edwards
Contributors: Edwards, Douglas R
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D; Jews -- Palestine -- Social conditions; Qumran community; Galilee (Israel) -- Civilization; Palestine -- Social conditions; Palestine -- Antiquities
Description: "This collection of papers combines important archaeological and textual evidence to examine diverse aspects of religion and society in Roman Palestine. A range of international experts provides an unprecedented look at issues of acculturation, assimilation and the preservation of difference in the multicultural climate of Palestine in the Roman period. Key themes include the nature of ethnicity and ritual, the character of public and private space in Jewish society, the role of gender and space, the role of peasants, the impact of Roman rule, and ritual and the regional framework of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls." "Religion and Society in Roman Palestine will be relevant to ancient historians, interpreters of the historical Jesus and subsequent Jesus movements, and those interested in the development of Judaism from Qumran to the rabbis."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Constructing the world of Roman Palestine / Douglas R. Edwards; title: First century Jewish Galilee / Mordechai Aviam; title: Jewish settlement in the southeastern Hula Valley in the first century C.E. / Idan Shaked, Dina Avshalom-Gorni; title: The Galilean response to earliest Christianity / Milton Moreland; title: Language and writing in early Roman Galilee / Esther Eshel, Douglas R. Edwards; title: Dionysos and Herakles in Galilee / Sean Freyne; title: The first-century synagogue / Lee Levine; title: City coins and Roman power in Palestine / Mark Chancey; title: Imagined households / Cynthia Baker; title: Gender, difference and everyday life / Miriam Peskowitz; title: Why scroll jars? / Jodi Magness; title: Qumran and the Dead Sea scrolls / Magen Broshi, Hanan Eshel; title: Opening up our view / Jurgen Zangenberg