The Galilean economy in the time of Jesus
By: edited by David A. Fiensy and Ralph K. Hawkins
Series: Early Christianity and its literature -- number 11; Early Christianity and its literature -- no. 11.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781589837577; 9781589837584; 9781589837850
Subjects: History; Economic conditions; Wirtschaft; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; Economic history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: People, land, economy, and belief in first century Galilee and its origins: a comprehensive archaeological synthesis / Mordechai Aviam; title: City and village in lower Galilee; the import of the archeological excavations at Sepphoris and Khirbet Qana (Cana) for framing the economic context of Jesus / Tom McCollough; title: Revisiting Jesus' Capernaum: a village of only subsistence-level fishers and farmers? / Sharon Lea Mattila; title: Execrating? or execrable peasants! / Douglas E. Oakman; title: Assessing the economy of Galilee in the late second temple period: five considerations / David A. Fiensy.