Building Jewish in the Roman East

Abbreviations

List of Tables and Illustrations

Preface

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

1. Religion and Architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean

PART TWO: TOWNS AND VILLAGES

2. Jesus and Palestinian Social Protest in Archaeological and Literary Perspective

3. 3-D Visualizations of a First-Century Galilean Town

4. Khirbet Qana (and Other Villages) as a Context for Jesus

5. First-Century Houses and Q's Setting

6. What has Cana to do with Capernaum?

PART THREE: SYNAGOGUES AND CHURCHES

7. Pre-70 Synagogues as Collegia in Rome, the Diaspora, and Judea

8. Architectural Transitions from Synagogues and House Churches to Purpose-Built Churches

9. Philo and Eusebius on Monasteries and Monasticism: The Therapeutae and Kellia

10. Jewish Voluntary Associations in Egypt and the Roles of Women

11. Building a "Synodos... and a Place of their Own"

12. An Architectural Case for Synagogues as Associations

PART FOUR: JUDEA AND JERUSALEM

13. Law and Piety in Herod's Architecture

14. Why Turn the Tables? Jesus' Protest in the Temple Precincts

15. Josephus, Nicolas of Damascus, and Herod's Building Program

16. Origins, Innovations, and Significance of Herod's Temple

17. Herod's Temple Architecture and Jerusalem's Tombs

18. The James Ossuary's Decoration and Social Setting

PART FOUR: CONCLUSION

19. Building Jewish in the Roman East

Notes

Glossary

Further Reading

Indexes

Ancient Sources

Modern Authors

Sites and Places