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Title Religion and society in Roman Palestine : old questions, new approaches / edited by Douglas R. Edwards
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D.
Jews -- Palestine -- Social conditions
Qumran community.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Antiquities
Civilization
Jews
Jews -- Social conditions
Qumran community
Social conditions
SUBJECT Galilee (Israel) -- Civilization
Palestine -- Social conditions
Palestine -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097164
Subject Israel -- Galilee
Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Edwards, Douglas R
ISBN 0203409566
9780203409565
1134402880
9781134402885
1134402899
9781134402892
0203351711
9780203351710
1280055006
9781280055003