Building Jewish in the Roman East

by Peter Richardson

Published by: Baylor University Press

Imprint: Baylor University Press

Archaeology has unearthed the glories of ancient Jewish buildings throughout the Mediterranean, but what has remained shrouded is what these buildings meant. Building Jewish first surveys the architecture...

Sales Date: 2004-11-03

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Archaeology has unearthed the glories of ancient Jewish buildings throughout the Mediterranean, but what has remained shrouded is what these buildings meant. Building Jewish first surveys the architecture of small rural villages in the Galilee in the early Roman period before examining the development of synagogues as "Jewish associations." Finally, Building Jewish explores Jerusalem's flurry of building activity under Herod the Great in the first century BCE. Richardson's careful work not only documents the culture that forms the background to any study of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity but also succeeds in demonstrating how architecture itself, like a text, conveys meaning and, thus, directly illuminates daily life and religious thought and practice in the ancient world.

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Preface

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

1. Religion and Architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean

PART TWO: TOWNS AND VILLAGES

2. Jesus and Palestinian Social Protest in Archaeological and Literary Perspective

3. 3-D Visualizations of a First-Century Galilean Town

4. Khirbet Qana (and Other Villages) as a Context for Jesus

5. First-Century Houses and Q's Setting

6. What has Cana to do with Capernaum?