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Index
Preface
Abbreviations
Map of Galilee and northern Palestine
Introduction
Galilee's early encounter with Hellenism
Before Alexander
Galilee under the Greeks
The Hasmoneans, Hellenism, and Galilee
Conclusion
The Roman army in Palestine
The beginning of Roman rule
The Roman military presence in pre-70 CE Palestine
Jesus and the centurion
Direct Roman rule and the outbreak of the revolt
The arrival of the Roman garrison
Conclusion
The introduction of Greco-Roman architecture
The first Romans
Herod the Great: client of the Romans, patron of Greco-Roman culture
From Antipas until the War
Beyond Galilee
Conclusion
The transformation of the landscape in the second and third centuries CE
Civic titles and names
The spread of Greco-Roman urban architecture
Sponsorship, labor, and Roman imperial architecture
Conclusion
The use of Greek in Jesus' Galilee
Chronology, geography, and the interpretation of evidence
Galilee's inscriptions
The “epigraphic habit”
The neighboring areas
Greek and Latin names in first-century Galilee
Conclusion
The coinage of Galilee
The coinage of Hellenistic Galilee
The coinage of the Roman period
Herodian coins
Civic coins
Conclusion
Greco-Roman art and the shifting limits of acceptability
Jewish art and figural representation in the first century CE
Frescoes and mosaics
Statues
Other forms of figural representation
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix: Galilean names in the first century CE
Select bibliography
Index of passages
Selective index of places
Index of people and topics
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