Baylor University Press
Building Jewish in the Roman East.
Archaeologist Richardson (emeritus, U. of Toronto) presents 19 published and new essays drawing on his early training in architecture, his convictions about the importance of religion and architecture to the study of antiquity, and his interest in linking archaeological and literary data. Within sections on towns and villages, synagogues and churches, and Judea and Jerusalem, he examines such topics as Jesus and Palestinian social protest in archaeological and literary perspective, architectural transitions from synagogues and house churches to purpose-built churches, Jewish voluntary associations in Egypt and the roles of women, and Herod's temple architecture and Jerusalem's tombs. Distributed by Johns Hopkins. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
