Authors: Peter Richardson
ISBN-13: 9781932792010, ISBN-10: 1932792015
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Peter Richardson, Ph.D.(Cambridge University), Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, is the author or editor of eleven books on Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, including, most recently, City and Sanctuary: Religion and Architecture in the Roman Near East (2002) and Herod the Great: King of Jews and Friend of Romans (1999). An experienced archaeologist, Richardson is also Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Archaeology 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 he 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.
Ch. 1 | Religion and architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean | 3 |
Ch. 2 | Jesus and Palestinian social protest in archaeological and literary perspective | 17 |
Ch. 3 | 3-D visualizations of a first-century Galilean town | 39 |
Ch. 4 | Khirbet Qana (and other villages) as a context for Jesus | 55 |
Ch. 5 | First-century houses and Q's setting | 73 |
Ch. 6 | What has Cana to do with Capernaum? | 91 |
Ch. 7 | Pre-70 synagogues as Collegia in Rome, the diaspora, and Judea | 111 |
Ch. 8 | Architectural transitions from synagogues and house churches to purpose-built churches | 135 |
Ch. 9 | Philo and Eusebius on monasteries and monasticism : the Therapeutae and Kellia | 151 |
Ch. 10 | Jewish voluntary associations in Egypt and the roles of women | 165 |
Ch. 11 | Building a "Synodos ... and a place of their own" | 187 |
Ch. 12 | An architectural case for synagogues as associations | 207 |
Ch. 13 | Law and piety in Herod's architecture | 225 |
Ch. 14 | Why turn the tables? : Jesus' protest in the temple precincts | 241 |
Ch. 15 | Josephus, Nicolas of Damascus, and Herod's building program | 253 |
Ch. 16 | Origins, innovations, and significance of Herod's temple | 271 |
Ch. 17 | Herod's temple architecture and Jerusalem's tombs | 299 |
Ch. 18 | The James Ossuary's decoration and social setting | 309 |
Ch. 19 | Building Jewish in the Roman East | 327 |