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Archaeology, History and Society in Galilee: The Social Context of Jesus and the Rabbis Richard Horsley Retail Price: $32.95 CenturyOne Price: $32.95 You Save: $0.00 (0%) Availability: Usually ships in 48 hours. Format: Paperback, 256pp. ISBN: 1563381826 Publisher: Trinity Press Intl Pub. Date: November 1996 Book Information: Description Reader's Index About the Author Table of Contents Customer Reviews Find Similar Books Average Customer Review: Order This Book! Item No: 8182-6 Safe Shopping Guarantee Description From The Publisher: This book attempts to corstruct bridges of communication and engagement between the fields of archaeology and history focused on a new understanding of Galilee. Chapter by chapter, Richard Horsley pieces together a picture of social relations in Galilee that is based upon and helps explain both the artifacts and the texts, and that takes fully into consideration the changing historical circumstances in the time of Jesus and the rabbis. Included are: a sketch of the history of Galilee from biblical times through late antiquity an examination of the character of the cities constructed during the lifetime of Jesus and their economic and cultural impact on the people a challenge to the archaeological and textual interpretations that tend to assume a market model of economic life in Galilee a portrayal of the villages of Upper and Lower Galilee respectively and the conflicts between the villages and cities a review of reports on synagogue buildings in Galilee with attention to date, architectural style, and decor a reexamination of the evidence for the relative use of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek in Galilee   Reader's Index Send us your favorite quotes or passages from this book.   About the Author Richard A. Horlsey is Professor of Classics and Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is author of Galilee: History, Politics, People; Archaeology, History, and Society in Galilee: The Social Context of Jesus and the Rabbis; and editor of Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society, all published by Trinity Press. Table of Contents PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS MAP INTRODUCTION Problems Procedures and Prospects 1. GALILEE, CROSSROAD OF EMPIRES Independence of the Israelite Tribes in Galilee Jerusalem Rule: The First Phase Galilee under Samaria, Assyria, Persia, Ptolemies, and Seleucids Jerusalem Rule: The Second Phase Roman Conquest, Client Kingships, and Reconquests An Interlude of Independence; Roman Reconquest and Urbanization 2. SEPPHORIS AND TIBERIAS, MONUMENTS OF URBANIZATION Sepphoris Under the Hasmoneans and Herod Sepplioris and Tiberias as Rival Royal Capitals T'he Political Culture of Roman Client-Rulers The Cosmopolitan Veneer of Newly Built Provincial Cities The Height of Roman Urbanization and Emergence of the Rabbis 3. TRADE OR TRIBUTE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ROMAN GALILEE Coins and Trade in Upper Galilee Pottery and Trade in Galilee The Question of a Market Economy The Political Economy of Roman Galilee City-Village Political Economic Relations in Galilee Political Economic Relations Between Galilee and Tyre 4. VILLAGES OF UPPER GALILEE The Hypothesis of Galilean Regionalism Upper Galilean Villages Under the Hasmoneans and Herodians Upper Galilean Vtllages from the Second to the Fourth Centuries 5. VILLAGES OF LOWER GALILEE Nazareth and Other Villages Near Sepphoris Capernaum and Other Villages Near Tiberias Conflictual Relations between Villages and Cities Villagers' Active Opposition to the Cities 6. BEFORE SYNAGOGUES WERE BUILDINGS Architectural Typology and Dating of Synagogue Buildings Particular Synagogue Buildings Culture of the Galilean Synagogue Buildings An Increasingly Explicit Jewish Orientation Functions of the Public Buildings Synagogues as Local Community Assemblies 7. LANGUAGES AND CULTURAL TRADITIONS Literacy and Orality Written Languages in Galilee and Judea Spoken Languages in Galilee and Judea Cultural Traditions Conclusion: JESUS AND THE RABBIS IN HISTORICAL SOCIAL CONTEXT Jesus and His Movement T'he Rabbinic Circles in Galilee NOTES INDEX Customer Reviews Write your own online review. Look for Similar Books by Subject History Galilee: History, Politics, People With Jesus Through Galilee According to the Fifth Gospel The Message and the Kingdom Archaeology

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