Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus

includes index and biblioraphy

i Galilee`s early encounter with Hellenism 24 Before Alexander 24 Galilee under the Greeks 26 The Hasmoneans, Hellenism, and Galilee 33 Conclusion 42 2. The Roman army in Palestine 43 The beginning of Roman rule 44 The Roman military presence in pre-yo CE Palestine 47 Jesus and the centurion 50 Direct Roman rule and the outbreak of the revolt 56 The arrival of the Roman garrison 61 Conclusion 69 3 The introduction of Greco-Roman architecture 71 The first Romans 71 Herod the Great: client of the Romans, patron of Greco-Roman culture 73 From Antipas until the War 82 Beyond Galilee 94 Conclusion 96 4 The transformation of the landscape in the second and third centuries CE 100 Civic titles and names 100 The spread of Greco-Roman urban architecture 105 Sponsorship, labor, and Roman imperial architecture 116 Conclusion 120 5 The use of Greek in Jesus` Galilee 122 Chronology, geography, and the interpretation of evidence 124 Galilee`s inscriptions 133 The "epigraphic habit" 141 The neighboring areas 150 Greek and Latin names in first-century Galilee 155 Conclusion 161 6 The coinage of Galilee 166 The coinage of Hellenistic Galilee 167 The coinage of the Roman period 170 Herodian coins 177 Civic coins 184 Conclusion 192 7 Greco-Roman art and the shifting limits of acceptability 193 Jewish art and figural representation in the first century CE 193 Frescoes and mosaics 195 Statues 204 Other forms of figural representation 210 Conclusion 216