Building Jewish in the Roman East

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Peter Richardson

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Archaeology has shown the riches of ancient Jewish buildings in Jerusalem, Judea, Galilee, and throughout the Mediterranean. The time is right for a book on ancient Jewish architecture Building Jewish in the Roman East first surveys the architecture of small rural villages in Galilee, concentrating on the early Roman period, before examining the development of synagogues as "Jewish associations" within Roman society. Finally, Building Jewish in the Roman East explores Jerusalem's flurry of building activity under Herod the Great in the first century BCE. Richardson's careful work not only documents the material culture that forms the background to any study of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity, but it 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.

Author Biography:

Peter Richardson (Ph.D. Cambridge University), professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, is the author or editor of more than 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 Greati King of Jews and Friend of Romans (1999). An experienced archaeologist, Richardson is also Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

Release date Australia

October 30th, 2004

Author

Peter Richardson

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

466

Dimensions

152x228x32

ISBN-13

9781932792010

Product ID

5821531

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