A Festschrift in honor of Rami Arav : "And they came to Bethsaida ..." / edited by Fred Strickert and Richard Freund.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strickert, Frederick M., editor.

Freund, Richard A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel--Bethsaida (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

Bethsaida, a fishing town on the north end of the Sea of Galilee, plays a prominent role in the Gospels, was home for several of Jesus' disciples, and was the location of the feeding of the 5,000 and many of Jesus' other healings. However, the Golden Age of Biblical Archaeology all but ignored this important site until 1987 when a young Israeli archaeologist, Rami Arav, undertook a probe revealing early Roman pottery, coins, and the remains of domestic buildings. This led to a thirty-two-year-long research project at Bethsaida, adding to our knowledge of the Historical Jesus and his disciples, and acting as a window into the world of common first-century men and women going about their daily lives in the realm of the family of the Emperor Augustus and the Herodians. The big surprise was that layers below the surface (and a thousand years earlier), there also appeared a major iron-age capital city of the Geshurites with a magnificent palace, impregnable city walls, a massive four-chamber gate system, and many religious symbols.This volume honors the work of Arav, who tirelessly dedicated himself to this dig, establishing the Bethsaida Excavations Project and bringing together a consortium of Universities and Colleges and a diverse team of international scholars who have joined in collaborative research to uncover the story of Bethsaida. In this volume, a representative selection of Bethsaida scholars shares their research to demonstrate the success of Arav's venture spanning over three decades.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Rami Arav Publications

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-3459-6

OCLC:

1102592998