Building Jewish in the Roman East (2005 Richardson), book

Building Jewish in the Roman East (2005) is a book by Peter Richardson.

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2005 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 92).

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.

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