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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783827103321

Titolo

Religion and society in Roman Palestine : old questions, new approaches / / edited by Douglas R. Edwards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-40288-0

1-134-40289-9

0-203-35171-1

1-280-05500-6

0-203-40956-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EdwardsDouglas R

Disciplina

933/.05

Soggetti

Jews - History - 168 B.C.-135 A.D

Jews - Palestine - Social conditions

Qumran community

Galilee (Israel) Civilization

Palestine Social conditions

Palestine Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Constructing the world of Roman Palestine / Douglas R. Edwards -- First century Jewish Galilee / Mordechai Aviam -- Jewish settlement in the southeastern Hula Valley in the first century C.E. / Idan Shaked, Dina Avshalom-Gorni -- The Galilean response to earliest Christianity / Milton Moreland -- Language and writing in early Roman Galilee / Esther Eshel, Douglas R. Edwards -- Dionysos and Herakles in Galilee / Sean Freyne -- The first-century synagogue / Lee Levine -- City coins and Roman power in Palestine / Mark Chancey -- Imagined households / Cynthia Baker -- Gender, difference and everyday life / Miriam Peskowitz -- Why scroll jars? / Jodi Magness -- Qumran and the Dead Sea scrolls / Magen Broshi, Hanan Eshel -- Opening up our view / Jurgen Zangenberg.

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of papers focussing on the contributions made by



archaeology to the understanding of society in Palestine in the Roman period. The papers enable the two ways of evidence to interact in an unprecedented way.