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Religion and society in Roman Palestine : old questions, new approaches
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Religion and society in Roman Palestine : old questions, new approaches

Author: Douglas R Edwards
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This collection of papers combines important archaeological and textual evidence to examine diverse aspects of religion and society in Roman Palestine. A range of international experts provides an unprecedented look at issues of acculturation, assimilation and the preservation of difference in the multicultural climate of Palestine in the Roman period. Key themes include the nature of ethnicity and ritual, the
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas R Edwards
ISBN: 0415305977 9780415305976 0203409566 9780203409565
OCLC Number: 53953505
Description: xix, 194 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Douglas R. Edwards.
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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  Read more...

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