Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee
A Region in Transition
Edited by Jürgen Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge and Dale B.Martin, 2007. http://www.mohr.de/v/pdf/MohrKurier3-2006.pdf
What is a Galilean? What were the
criteria of defining a person as a
Galilean – archaeologically or with
respect to literary sources such as
Josephus or the rabbis? What role did
religion play in the process of identity
formation? Twenty-two articles based
on papers read at conferences at
Cambridge,Wuppertal and Yale by
experts from 7 countries shed light on
a complex region, the pivotal geographic
and cultural context of both
earliest Christianity and rabbinic
Judaism.
Contents include: Identity at Ground Level:
New Evidence from Sites and
Regions of Galilee-- Carl Savage: Supporting
Evidence for a First-Century
Bethsaida
The Archeology of Worship in Biblical Israel
Baltimore Hebrew University April 22-23, 2007
The interdisciplinary interplay of Biblicists, archaeologists, and other scholars will illuminate not only the ideology and practice underlying Biblical literary depiction of worship, but will also demonstrate how archaeological evidence helps to create meaning and leads to a richer understanding of worship as depicted in the Bible. Presented a poster on The Sacred Precinct of Bethsaida/Et-Tell. poster
A Rare Aureus from Antoninus Pius at
Bethsaida
Israel
Numismatic Research, Volume 6, 2011
Biblical Bethsaida: An Archaeological Study of the First Century
by Carl E. Savage
In his illuminating, well-researched book examing the archaelogical site of Bethsaida, Carl E. Savage explores archaeological evidence to offer readers a protrait of the religious beliefs and practices of the commuity lining near the north chore of the Sea of Galilee during the first century CE. Using archaeological data, he describes the material proactices of Bethsaida's ancient inhabitants. Savage evaluates the historical plausibility of various social reconstructions for the region, and finds that the image that emerges of the first-century Bethsaida is one similar to tose of other Jewish communities in the Galilee.
The book is now available from Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0--7391-3781-9 Amazon.com link
