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A collection of papers focussing on the contributions made by archaeology to the understanding of society in Palestine in the Roman period. The papers enable the two ways of evidence to interact in an unprecedented way.
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Written by international experts, this collection of papers combines important archaeological and textual evidence to examine diverse aspects of religion and society in Roman Palestine. It looks in detail at issues of acculturation, assimilation and the preservation of difference in the multicultural climate of Palestine during the Roman period. Key themes explored in the text include: the nature of ethnicity and ritual, the character of public and private space in Jewish society, the role of peasants and the impact of Roman rule.
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