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Author Sawicki, Marianne

Title Crossing Galilee : architectures of contact in the occupied land of Jesus / Marianne Sawicki
Published Harrisburg, Pa. : Trinity Press International, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 A Reorientation of Jesus Studies; 2 Containment Designs in the Kinneret Region; 3 What Moved Across Galilee; 4 The Trouble With Models; 5 Material Mindscapes to Be Read; 6 Spatial Management Strategies; 7 Israel as Little Italy; 8 Salting the Earth; 9 A Kingdom of Contact; 10 Bibliographical Commentary; Index
Summary Recent books about Jesus and early Christianity can be divided into two kinds: those that examine the life and work of the historical Jesus prior to his death and those that reconstruct events between JesusGÇÖ death and the writings of the first Gospels. SawickiGÇÖs provocative book challenges the results of both kinds of research by using both archaeology and anthropology to situate Jesus clearly in his Galilean cultural context. Sawicki contests recent portraits of Jesus as a Mediterranean peasant, a Cynic sage, or the convener of a fellowship of equals. In addition, she calls into question r
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-250) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Jesus Christus. swd
Bible -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013580
Bible fast
Subject Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Sociology, Biblical.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
Antiquities
Christian sociology -- Early church
Social conditions
Sociology, Biblical
Women in Christianity -- Early church
Zeithintergrund
Bijbelse archeologie.
Vroege kerk.
Nieuwe Testament.
Sociale geschiedenis.
SUBJECT Mediterranean Region -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005010
Palestine -- Social conditions
Subject Mediterranean Region
Middle East -- Palestine
Galiläa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567240187
0567240185
1283195402
9781283195409