The Galilee in Late Antiquity Book

	List of Illustrations
	Abbreviations
	Introduction
I	Early Christianity in the Galilee
	Early Christianity in the Galilee: Reassessing the Evidence from the Gospels	3
	The Gospel of Matthew and Jewish-Christian Conflict in the Galilee	23
	Literary Evidence for Jewish Christianity in the Galilee	39
II	Aspects of Galilean Society
	The Socio-Economic and Cultural Ethos of the Lower Galilee in the First Century: Implications for the Nascent Jesus Movement	53
	Urban-Rural Relations in First-Century Galilee: Some Suggestions from the Literary Sources	75
III	Roman Rule in the Galilee
	How Anti-Roman was the Galilee?	95
	The Roman Army in the Galilee	103
	Roman Rule and the Cities of the Galilee in Talmudic Literature	115
	The Roman State and the Jewish Patriarh in the Third Century	127
IV	Rabbis and Galilean Jewry in Late Antiquity
	Was There a Galilean Halakha?	143
	The Place of the Rabbi in Jewish Society of the Second Century	157
	R. Hanina bar Hama at Sepphoris	175
	The Sages and the Synagogue in Late Antiquity: The Evidence of the Galilee	201
V	Language and Literature in the Galilee
	The Galilean Background of Mishnaic Hebrew	225
	The Aramaic Targum as a Mirror of Galilean Jewry	241
	Rabbinic Views on the Practice of Targum, and Multilingualism in the Jewish Galilee of the Third-Sixth Centuries	253
VI	Archeological Evidence in the Galilee
	The Ancient Synagogues of the Galilee	289
	Roman Sepphoris in Light of New Archeological Evidence and Recent Research	321
	Six Campaigns at Sepphoris: The University of South Florida Excavations, 1983-1989	339
	Social Aspects of Burial in Beth Shearim: Archeological Finds and Talmudic Sources	357
	Contributors	373
	Indices	375