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Nazareth
 


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Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files.
 
 
Archaeological Evidence
 
Excavation websites
 
 
 
Excavation Reports
 
Alexandre, Yardenna.  Mary's Well, Nazareth: The Late Hellenistic to the Ottoman Periods, Israel Antiquities Authority Report 49.  Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2012.
 
Bagatti, B.  Excavations in Nazareth, vol. 1, From the Beginning till the XII Century, Publications of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum 17.  Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1969.
 
Najjar, Arfan and Nissim Najjar.  "Nazareth."  In Excavations and Surveys in Israel, vol. 16 (ed. Ayala Sussmann, Dafnah Strauss and Rachel Kudish; Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1997) 49-50.
 
Pfann, Stephen J., Ross Voss and Yehudah Rapuano.  "Surveys and Excavations at the Nazareth Village Farm (1997-2002): Final Report."  Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 25 (2007) 19-79.
 
Raban, A.  "Nazareth and Afula Maps, Survey."  Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English edition of Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Archaeological Newsletter of the Israel Antiquities Authority 12 (1993–1994) 19.
 
Rapuano, Y.  The Nazareth Village Farm Project Pottery (1997–2002): Amendment."  Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 26 (2008) 113-35.
 
Salm, Renée.  The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus.   Cranford, New Jersey: American Atheist Press, 2008.
 
Strange, James F.  "Nazareth."  In Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods, vol. 2, The Archaeological Record from Cities, Towns, and Villages (ed. David A. Fiensy and James Riley Strange; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015) 167-80.
 
 
Associated Artifacts
 
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
N.b. See the Associated artifacts pages for bibliography on important evidence from Nazareth.
 
Adan-Bayewitz, David and Isadore Perlman.  "The Local Trade of Sepphoris in the Roman Period."  Israel Exploration Journal 40:2-3 (1990) 153-72. [Article filed in folder for Sepphoris]
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
The Gospels
 
Connections of Material to Jesus: Secondary Literature
 
Anonymous.  "Resurrecting Nazareth: $60 Million Plan to Recreate Jesus' Hometown Underway."  Biblical Archaeology Review 25:3 (1999) 16.
 
Batey, Richard A.  "Sepphoris and the Jesus Movement."  New Testament Studies 47:3 (2001) 402-409. [Article filed in folder for Sepphoris]
 
Chilton, Bruce.  "From Economic Culture to Theological Interpretation: Nazareth, Capernaum, and Jerusalem as Environments of Jesus' Teaching."  In Religious Texts and Material Contexts (ed. Jacob Neusner and James F. Strange; Studies in Ancient Judaism; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2001) 63-71.
 
Taylor, Joan E.  "A Graffito Depicting John the Baptist in Nazareth?"  Palestine Exploration Quarterly 119 (1987) 142-8.
 
Yarnold, Edward J.  "Who Planned the Churches at the Christian Holy Places in the Holy Land?"  Studia patristica 18:1 (1985) 105-109.
 
 
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