Building Jewish in the Roman EastArchaeology 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 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. |
Contents
Religion and Architecture in the Eastern | 3 |
Jesus and Palestinian Social Protest | 17 |
3D Visualizations of a FirstCentury Galilean | 39 |
Khirbet Qana and Other Villages as a Context | 55 |
FirstCentury Houses and Qs Setting | 73 |
What has Cana to do with Capernaum? | 91 |
Pre70 Synagogues as Collegia in Rome | 111 |
Architectural Transitions from Synagogues | 135 |
Why Turn the Tables? Jesus Protest | 241 |
Josephus Nicolas of Damascus | 253 |
Origins Innovations and Significance | 271 |
Herods Temple Architecture | 299 |
The James Ossuarys Decoration | 309 |
Building Jewish in the Roman East | 327 |
Notes | 347 |
Glossary | 379 |
Philo and Eusebius on Monasteries | 151 |
An Architectural Case for Synagogues | 207 |
Law and Piety in Herods Architecture | 225 |
Indexes | 391 |