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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784194603321

Autore

Richardson Peter <1935->

Titolo

Building Jewish in the Roman East [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waco, Tex., : Baylor University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-60258-035-9

9786610302857

1-280-30285-2

1-280-94528-1

9786610945283

1-4294-5029-0

1-4237-9475-3

90-474-0650-8

1-4337-0748-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (468 p.)

Disciplina

722/.7/0933

Soggetti

Synagogue architecture - Israel

Synagogues - Israel

Architecture and religion

Israel Antiquities

Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D

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 (p. 383-389) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Tables and Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 Religion and Architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean; Chapter 2 Jesus and Palestinian Social Protest in Archaeological and Literary Perspective; Chapter 3 3-D Visualizations of a First-Century Galilean Town; Chapter 4 Khirbet Qana (and Other Villages) as a Context for Jesus; Chapter 5 First-Century Houses and Q's Setting; Chapter 6 What has Cana to do with Capernaum?; Chapter 7 Pre-70 Synagogues as Collegia in Rome, the Diaspora, and Judea

Chapter 8 Architectural Transitions from Synagogues and House Churches to Purpose-Built ChurchesChapter 9 Philo and Eusebius on



Monasteries and Monasticism: The Therapeutae and Kellia; Chapter 10 Jewish Voluntary Associations in Egypt and the Roles of Women; Chapter 11 Building a ""Synodos . . . and a Place of their Own""; Chapter 12 An Architectural Case for Synagogues as Associations; Chapter 13 Law and Piety in Herod's Architecture; Chapter 14 Why Turn the Tables? Jesus' Protest in the Temple Precincts; Chapter 15 Josephus, Nicolas of Damascus, and Herod's Building Program

Chapter 16 Origins, Innovations, and Significance of Herod's TempleChapter 17 Herod's Temple Architecture and Jerusalem's Tombs; Chapter 18 The James Ossuary's Decoration and Social Setting; Chapter 19 Building Jewish in the Roman East; Notes; Glossary; Further Reading; Indexes; Ancient Sources; Modern Authors; Sites and Places

Sommario/riassunto

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 Chri