By David A. Fiensy, Ralph K. Hawkins
So one can supply an updated record and research of the industrial stipulations of first-century C.E. Galilee, this assortment surveys contemporary archaeological excavations (Sepphoris, Yodefat, Magdala, and Khirbet Qana) and stories effects from older excavations (Capernaum). It additionally bargains either interpretation of the excavations for financial questions and lays out the parameters of the present debate at the way of life of the traditional Galileans. The essays integrated, through archaeologists in addition to biblical students, were drawn from the point of view of archaeology or the social sciences. the quantity therefore represents a extensive spectrum of perspectives in this well timed and infrequently hotly debated factor. The participants are Mordechai Aviam, David A. Fiensy, Ralph okay. Hawkins, Sharon Lea Mattila, Tom McCollough, and Douglas Oakman.
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This became an interesting and persistent question in part because of the beguiling article by Richard A. Batey, “Jesus and the Theater,” New Testament Studies 30 (1984): 563–74. MCCOLLOUGH: CITY AND VILLAGE IN LOWER GALILEE 53 Figure 3.
These houses belonged to very rich families. These families lived in small and large towns in Galilee and Golan and probably in the cities as well. ” Galilean villagers in the mountains, such as at Yodefat, were entrepreneurs. In an attempt to overcome the inferiority of the land, they developed some occupations that could increase their income, as in the case of the potters of Yodefat and the wool/clothing production. The reconstruction of the socioeconomic pyramid in the Galilean society according to archaeological finds places the wool workers (evidenced by the spindle and spindle whorls), weavers (evidenced by the loom weights), and potters (evidenced by the kilns, potter’s wheel, and wasters) at the bottom.
Q=tbn:ANd9GcS0spuy5m5XqumlmMcOAEzOtqq7d8gXXSOcMU1iWy-4JEKnczv&t=1. youtube. album=Migdal. 53. For a full and comprehensive discussion of the decoration of the stone, see, M. Aviam, “The Decorated Stone from the Synagogue at Migdal,” NovT. 4 (2013) (forthcoming). AVIAM: PEOPLE, LAND, ECONOMY, AND BELIEF 39 Figure 18. Gamla synagogue. Photograph by David Fiensy. Figure 19. Stone table (back side), Migdal. Photo by Mordechai Aviam from the replica. 40 THE GALILEAN ECONOMY IN THE TIME OF JESUS Figure 20.