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Archaeology, the Rabbis, & Early Christianity (1981) is a book by Eric M. Meyers and James F. Strange.

Abstract

Editions

Published in Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1981.

Translations

• Les rabbins et les premiers chrétiens: archéologie et histoire (1984 Meyers, Strange / Prignaud), book (French ed.)

Table of contents

Introduction: the relevance of nonliterary sources -- The cultural setting of Galilee: the case of regionalism and early Palestinian Judaism -- The context of early Christianity and Palestinian Judaism; Jerusalem, Nazareth, Capernaum -- The languages of Roman Palestine; Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin -- Jewish burial practices and views of afterlife and early Christan evidences -- Evidences of early Christianity: churches in the Holy Land -- Synagogues, art and the world of the sages -- Jewish and Christian attachment to Palestine -- The place of Eretz Israel in Rabbinic theology -- The place of the land in Early Christian theology

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