In Greek and Roman times, Galilee was a remote and little-known district. Its inhabitants met with suspicion and even contempt in far-away Jerusalem. Yet it was

In Mapping Galilee, John M. Vonder Bruegge examines how 1st century CE Galilee is portrayed, both in ancient writings and current scholarship, as a variously ma

A complete geographical and thematic overview of the village in an antiquity and its role in the rise of Christianity. The volume begins with a “state-of-quest

The first part of this collection is devoted to one of the key questions of the 'Synoptic Problem': the literary and christological relationship between Mark an