Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee

A Region in Transition
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-16-149044-6
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 210, 509 Seiten, LEINEN, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 915 g

Reihe: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

What is a Galilean? What were the criteria of defining a person as a Galilean - archaeologically or with respect to literary sources such as Josephus or the rabbis? What role did religion play in the process of identity formation? Twenty-two articles based on papers read at conferences at Cambridge, Wuppertal and Yale by experts from 7 countries shed light on a complex region, the pivotal geographic and cultural context of both earliest Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. In these papers, ancient Galilee emerges as a dynamic region of continuous change, in which religion, 'ethnicity', and 'identity' were not static monoliths but had to be negotiated in the context of a multiform environment subject to different influences.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of biblical studies, archaeology, Jewish studies, and history, corresponding institutes and libraries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zangenberg, Jürgen K.

Attridge, Harold W.

Martin, Dale B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Jürgen Zangenberg: A Region in Transition. Introducing Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Ancient Galilee

I. The State of Affairs in Galilean Studies
Sean Freyne: Galilean Studies.
Old Issues and New Questions

II. »What is a Galilean«?
Modes of Defining Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Textual and Archaeological Sources
Martin Karrer: Licht über dem Galiläa der Völker - Timothy Luckritz Marquis: Re-Presenting Galilean Identity -
Silvia Cappelletti: Non-Jewish Authors on Galilee - Mark A. Chancey: The Epigraphic Habit of Hellenistic and Roman Galilee - Michael Peppard: Personal Names and Ethnic Hybridity in Late Ancient Galilee - Mordechai Aviam: Distribution Maps of Archaeological Data from the Galilee - Milton Moreland: The Inhabitants of Galilee in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods

III. Identity at Ground Level: New Evidence from Sites and Regions of Galilee Wolfgang Zwickel: The Huleh Valley from the Iron Age to the Muslim Period - Carl Savage: Supporting Evidence for a First-Century Bethsaida - Yizhar Hirschfeld and Katharina Galor: New Excavations in Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Tiberias - Anders Runesson: Architecture, Conflict, and Identity Formation - Jodi Magness: Did Galilee Decline in the Fifth Century?

IV. »A Region of Many Identities«. Cultural Interaction and Social Relations in and with Ancient Galilee Morten Hørning Jensen: Message and Minting - Marcus Sigismund: Small Change? Coins and Weights as a Mirror of Ethnic, Religious and Political Identity in 1st /2nd Century C.E. Tiberias - Monika Bernett: Roman Imperial Cult in the Galilee - Douglas R. Edwards: Identity and Social Location in Roman Galilean Villages - Stuart S.Miller: Priests, Purities, and the Jews of the Galilee - Joshua Ezra Burns: The Archaeology of Rabbinic Literature and the Study of Jewish- Christian Relations in Late Antiquity - Mira Waner: Music Culture in Ancient Sepphoris - Thomas M. Weber: Gadara and the Galilee

Über Autor(innen)

Zangenberg, Jürgen K.
Studium der evangelischen Theologie in Erlangen, Heidelberg und Edinburgh; Promotion zum Dr. theol. 1996 an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; 2003 Habilitation an der Kirchlichen Hochschule und der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal; seit 2006 Professor für Neues Testament und Frühchristliche Literatur sowie seit 2008 auch an der Fakultät für Archäologie der Universität Leiden/Niederlande.

Attridge, Harold W.
Born 1946; 1967 A.B. Boston College; 1969 B.A. Cambridge University; 1975 PhD Harvard University; currently Sterling Professor of Divinity, Yale Divinity School.

Jürgen Zangenberg is Professor of New Testament and early Christian literature at the University of Leiden.

Harold W. Attridge is Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School.

Dale B. Martin is Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University.