Myth of a Gentile Galilee: The Population of Galilee and New Testament Studies Book

	Preface
	List of abbreviations
	Note on dating
	Maps
	Introduction	1
1	Images of Galilee's population in biblical scholarship	11
	Before the digs	11
	The influence of archaeology	16
	Jewish Galilee	22
2	The political and demographic history of Galilee	28
	The Assyrian conquest of Galilee	28
	Galilee in the Persian period	34
	Macedonian and Greek rule	35
	Galilee and the Maccabees	37
	The Hasmoneans and Galilee	41
	Herodian and Roman rule	47
	Galilee during the Jewish War	55
	The aftermath of the Revolt	58
	Galilee's population in the first century CE	61
3	Galilean communities in the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman periods	63
	The nature of our evidence	63
	Lower Galilee	69
	Upper Galilee	110
4	Galilee and the circle of nations	120
	The "foreign nations"	120
	Galilee and the neighboring areas	155
	Conclusion	167
	Bibliography	183
	Index of passages	219
	Selective index of places	227
	Selective index of people and topics	229