The author is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Puget Sound. He has directed or co-directed excavations at Khirbet Qana and Yodefat/Jotapata in Israel and Chresonesos in the Ukraine. Past publications include Religion and Power: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greek East and an edited volume entitled Archaeology and the Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Greco-Roman and Byzantine Periods.

• List of illustrations, List of contributors, Foreword MARTIN GOODMAN, Acknowledgments, List of abbreviations, 1 Constructing the world of Roman Palestine: an introduction, 2 First century Jewish Galilee: an archaeological perspective, 3 Jewish settlement in the southeastern Hula Valley in the first century CE, 4 The Galilean response to earliest Christianity: a cross-cultural study of the subsistence ethic, 5 Language and writing in early Roman Galilee: social location of a potter’s abecedary from Khirbet Qana, 6 Dionysos and Herakles in Galilee: the Sepphoris mosaic in context, 7 The first-century synagogue: critical reassessments and assessments of the critical, 8 City coins and Roman power in Palestine: from Pompey to the Great Revolt, 9 Imagined households, 10 Gender, difference, and everyday life: the case of weaving and its tools, 11 Why scroll jars?, 12 Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: the contention of twelve theories, 13 Opening up our view: Khirbet Qumran in a regional perspective, Index

The author is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Puget Sound. He has directed or co-directed excavations at Khirbet Qana and Yodefat/Jotapata in Israel and Chresonesos in the Ukraine. Past publications include Religion and Power: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greek East and an edited volume entitled Archaeology and the Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Greco-Roman and Byzantine Periods.

• List of illustrations, List of contributors, Foreword MARTIN GOODMAN, Acknowledgments, List of abbreviations, 1 Constructing the world of Roman Palestine: an introduction, 2 First century Jewish Galilee: an archaeological perspective, 3 Jewish settlement in the southeastern Hula Valley in the first century CE, 4 The Galilean response to earliest Christianity: a cross-cultural study of the subsistence ethic, 5 Language and writing in early Roman Galilee: social location of a potter’s abecedary from Khirbet Qana, 6 Dionysos and Herakles in Galilee: the Sepphoris mosaic in context, 7 The first-century synagogue: critical reassessments and assessments of the critical, 8 City coins and Roman power in Palestine: from Pompey to the Great Revolt, 9 Imagined households, 10 Gender, difference, and everyday life: the case of weaving and its tools, 11 Why scroll jars?, 12 Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: the contention of twelve theories, 13 Opening up our view: Khirbet Qumran in a regional perspective, Index