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Building Jewish In The Roman East

By Peter Richardson

Book information

Publisher
Baylor University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9781423794752, 9781932792010, 1932792015
Open Library ID
OL8811000M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4362252 bytes)
Series
(Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) 92
Pages
467\468
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Archaeology has unearthed the glories of ancient Jewish buildings throughout the Mediterranean. But what has remained shrouded is what these buildings meant. "Building Jewish" first surveys the architecture of small rural villages in the Galilee in the early Roman period before examining the development of synagogues as 'Jewish associations.' Finally, "Building Jewish" explores Jerusalem's flurry of building activity under Herod the Great in the first century BCE. Richardson's careful work not only documents the culture that forms the background to any study of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity, but he also succeeds in demonstrating how architecture itself, like a text, conveys meaning and thus directly illuminates daily life and religious thought and practice in the ancient world.

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