Title Building Jewish in the Roman East / Peter Richardson

Published Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 413 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations Series Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 92. Contents Religion and architecture in the eastern Mediterranean -- Part one: -- Towns and villages -- Jesus and Palestinian social protest in archaeological and literary perspective -- 3D visualizations of a first-century Galilean town -- Khirbet Qana (and other villages) as a context for Jesus -- First-century houses and Q's setting -- What has Cana to do with Capernaum? -- Part two: -- Synagogues and churches -- Pre-70 synagogues as collegia in Rome, the diaspora, and Judea -- Architectural transitions from synagogues and house churches to purpose-built churches -- Philo and Eusebius on monasteries and monasticism: the therapeutae and kellia -- Jewish voluntary associations in Egypt and the roles of women -- Building a "synodos ... and a place of their own" -- An architectural case for synagogues as associations -- Part three: -- Judea and Jerusalem -- Law and piety in herod's architecture -- Why turn the tables? Jesus' protest in the temple precincts -- Josephus, Nicolas of Damascus, and Herod's building program -- Origins, innovations and significance of Herod's temple -- Herod's temple architecture and Jerusalem's tombs -- The James' ossuary's decoration and social setting -- Building Jewish in the Roman east Summary Archaeology has unearthed the glories of ancient Jewish buildings throughout the Mediterranean. But what has remained shrouded is what these buildings meant. Building Jewish surveys the architecture of small rural villages in Galilee in the early Roman period before examining the development of synagogues as Jewish associations. Building Jewish also 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 Christianity, but it Analysis aaRome axHistory ayEmpire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D Israel (Altertum) Römerzeit Synagoge Architektur Römisches Reich / Ostprovinzen Juden Architektur Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-389) and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Synagogue architecture -- Israel Synagogues -- Israel Architecture and religion. Religious architecture -- Israel ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Prehistoric & Primitive. Religious architecture Antiquities Architecture and religion Synagogue architecture Synagogues Architektur Bouwkunst. Jodendom. Romeinse oudheid. Archeologische vondsten. Synagogen. De Tempel (Jeruzalem) Synagoge -- Israel (Volk) -- Geschichte Altertum. Architektur -- Israel (Altertum) -- Geschichte -- a.0100-p.0070. Synagoge. SUBJECT Israel -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068692 Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115127 Subject Israel Rome (Empire) Israel Altertum Israel (Altertum) -- Archäologische Stätte -- Geschichte -- a.0100-p.0070. Juden. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1423794753 9781423794752 9781429450294 1429450290 1602580359 9781602580350 9004141316 9789004141315 1932792015 9781932792010

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