Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Ancient Galilee: A Region in TransitionJürgen Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge, Dale B. Martin What is a Galilean? What were the criteria of defining a person as a Galilean - archaeologically or with respect to literary sources such as Josephus or the rabbis? What role did religion play in the process of identity formation? Twenty-two articles based on papers read at conferences at Cambridge, Wuppertal and Yale by experts from 7 countries shed light on a complex region, the pivotal geographic and cultural context of both earliest Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. In these papers, ancient Galilee emerges as a dynamic region of continuous change, in which religion, 'ethnicity', and 'identity' were not static monoliths but had to be negotiated in the context of a multiform environment subject to different influences. |
Contents
JÜRGEN ZANGENBERG | 1 |
MILTON MORELAND | 3 |
SEAN FREYNE | 13 |
MARTIN KARRER | 33 |
TIMOTHY LUCKRITZ MARQUIS | 55 |
SILVIA CAPPELLETTI | 69 |
MARK A CHANCEY | 83 |
MICHAEL PEPPARD | 99 |
ANDERS RUNESSON | 231 |
Galilee Decline in the Fifth Century? The Synagogue at Chorazin | 259 |
MORTEN HØRNING JENSEN | 277 |
MARCUS SIGISMUND | 315 |
MONIKA BERNETT | 329 |
Structures Functions and Dynamics | 337 |
DOUGLAS R EDWARDS | 357 |
STUART S MILLER | 375 |
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