Galilean Spaces of Identity

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Galilean Spaces of Identity is written by Joseph Scales and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 900469255X (ISBN 10) and 9789004692558 (ISBN 13).

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.