Galilee through the Centuries

• J. P. Dessel, ‘Tell Ein Zippori and the Lower Galilee in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages: A Village Perspective’John S. Jorgensen, ‘Response to J. P. Dessel’Sean Freyne, ‘Behind the Names: Galileans, Samaritans, Ioudaioi’Richard A. Horsley, ‘Jesus and Galilee: The Contingencies of a Renewal Movement’Cilliers Breytenbach, ‘Mark and Galilee: Text World and Historical World’Jonathan L. Reed, ‘Galileans, ‘Israelite Village Communities,’ and the Sayings Gospel Q’Eric M. Meyers, ‘Sepphoris on the Eve of the Great Revolt (67-68 C.E.): Archaeology and Josephus’Lee I. Levine, ‘The Development of Synagogue Liturgy in Late Antiquity’Tsvika Tsuk, ‘The Aqueducts to Sepphoris’Leonard V. Rutgers, ‘Incense Shovels at Sepphoris?’Zeev Weiss and Ehud Netzer, ‘A New Look at Synagogue Art and Architecture in the Byzantine Period’Steven Fine, ‘Art and the Liturgical Context of the Sepphoris Synagogue Mosaic’Stuart S. Miller, ‘New Perspectives on the History of Sepphoris’Hayim Lapin, ‘Palestinian Inscriptions and Jewish Ethnicity in Late Antiquity’C. Thomas McCullough and Beth Glazier-McDonald, ‘Social Magic and Social Realities in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Galilee’Mordechai Aviam, ‘Christian Galilee in the Byzantine Period’Reuven Kimelman, ‘Identifying Jews and Christians in Roman Syria-Palestine’Stephen Goranson, ‘Joseph of Tiberias Revisited: Orthodoxies and Heresies in Fourth-Century Galilee’Blake Leyerle, ‘Pilgrims to the Land: Early Christian Perceptions of Galilee’Andrew S. Jacobs, ‘Visible Ghosts and Invisible Demons: The Place of Jews in Early Christian Terra Sancta’Fred L. Horton Jr., ‘The Advent of Islam at Sepphoris and at Caesarea Maritma’Seth Ward, ‘Sepphoris in Sacred Geography’

"Galilee is significant historically in the origins of Christianity, the Jewish-Roman War, and in the subsequent development of Judaism. This volume contains the twenty-two papers presented to the Second International Congress on Galilee in Antiquity at Duke University, designed to demonstrate the rich, diverse Galilean culture. Two by J. P. Dressel and John S. Jorgensen deal with the Iron Age. Five relate to the Early Roman period, while eight deal with "Jewish, Rabbinic, and Epigraphic Sources." The final seven treat Byzantine, Christian, and early medieval topics. Nine essays discuss aspects of Sepphoris, while Bethsaida, Tiberias, and Caesarea Philippi (also under current excavation) receive little or no attention in this volume. There is minimal attention to the Greek influence on Galilee under the Diadochoi. The two more general essays on Galilee by Sean Freyne ("Behind the Names: Galileans, Samaritans, Ioudaioi," pp. 39-58) and Richard A. Horsley ("Jesus and Galilee: The Contingencies of a Renewal Movement," pp. 57-74) will interest students of social history, early Judaism, and the New Testament. I found Lee I. Levine's article "The Development of the Synagogue in Late Antiquity" (pp. 123-44) highly original and valuable--though only tangentially related to Galilee. He dates the origins of the synagogue much later than most scholarship. (There are three articles on the Sepphoris synagogue.) Thus, though the essays are both more and less than the title suggests, they should be read by all interested in the history of Early Roman and Byzantine Palestine." --Edgar Krentz, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in JNES, January 2003.