Building Jewish in the Roman East /
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| Language: | English |
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Waco, Tex. :
Baylor University Press,
©2004.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=173760 |
Table of 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.