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Galilean Spaces of Identity
Judaism and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee
Series: - Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume: 214
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We understand the world around us in terms of built spaces. Such spaces are shaped by human activity, and in turn, affect how people live. Through an analysis of archaeological and textual evidence from the beginnings of Hasmonean influence in Galilee, until the outbreak of the First Jewish War against Rome, this book explores how Judaism was socially expressed: bodily, communally, and regionally. Within each expression, certain aspects of Jewish identity operate, these being purity conceptions, communal gatherings, and Galilee's relationship with the Hasmoneans, Jerusalem, and the Temple in its final days.
Joseph Scales, PhD (2021), University of Birmingham, is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Agder. He has previously published on ancient Jewish society and culture. His current project focuses on pre-battle speeches.
Biblical scholars, historians and archeaologists, especially those interested in Jewish identity in the late Second Temple period, purity conceptions, synagogues, and the Hasmonean Kingdom.