Digging up 'Common Judaism' in Galilee
The identification of the stepped pools in Sepphoris as ritual baths or 'miqva'ot' is one of the pillars in descriptionbing the cultural identity of the Sepphorians in particular (and Galileans in general) in the late Second Temple Period. Besides the scholarly disagreement about what...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2000, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-55 |
| Further subjects: | B
Archaeology
B Judaism B Miqva'ot in archaeological research B Christianity B Loudaios B Sepphoris B Second temple period B Stepped pools |
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| Summary: | The identification of the stepped pools in Sepphoris as ritual baths or 'miqva'ot' is one of the pillars in descriptionbing the cultural identity of the Sepphorians in particular (and Galileans in general) in the late Second Temple Period. Besides the scholarly disagreement about what a 'miqveh' is, it is argued that assumptions about 'common Judaism' as the appropriate setting for dealing with the cultural identity of Galileans together with specific definitions of 'Jews' and 'Jewishness' are some of the stumbling blocks in the debate. An acknowledgement of the different meanings of the term 'loudaios' as well as an alternative portrayal of Second Temple Judaism (as consisting of a variety of Judaisms), provide the archaeologist with a new setting for framing the archaeological data. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/AJA2548356_533 |