Building Jewish in the Roman East (2005 Richardson), book
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Building Jewish in the Roman East (2005) is a book by Peter Richardson.
Abstract
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.
External links
- [ Google Books]