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Sepphoris
 


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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
 
Lapp, Eric C.  Sepphoris II: The Clay Lamps from Ancient Sepphoris: Light Use and Regional Interactions, Sepphoris Excavation Reports 2.  Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2016.
 
Meyers, Eric M. and Carol L. Meyers.  Sepphoris.  Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns/Joint Sepphoris Project, 1992.
 
Meyers, Eric M., Carol L. Meyers and Benjamin D. Gordon.  "Sepphoris. B. Residential Area of the Western Summit."  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) 39-52.
 
Meyers, Eric M., Carol L. Meyers and Kenneth G. Hoglund.  "Sepphoris (Sippori) 1994."  Israel Exploration Journal 45:1 (1995) 68-71.
 
--------.  "Zippori (Sepphoris)–1994."  In Excavations and Surveys in Israel, vol. 16 (ed. Ayala Sussmann, Dafnah Strauss and Rachel Kudish; Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1997) 46-7.
 
Strange, James F.  "Sepphoris. A. The Jewel of the Galilee."  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) 22-38.
 
--------.  "Sepphoris. D. The Sepphoris Aqueducts."  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) 76-87.
 
Strange, James F. and Thomas R. W. Longstaff.  "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1983" and "Sepphoris (Sippori)—Survey, 1984."  Israel Exploration Journal 34 (1984) 51-2, 269-70.
 
Strange, James F., Thomas R. W. Longstaff and Dennis E. Groh.  Excavations at Sepphoris, vol. 1, University of South Florida Probes in the Citadel and Villa, The Brill Reference Library of Judaism. Boston: Brill, 2006.
 
Strange, James F., Dennis E. Groh and Thomas R. W. Longstaff.  "Excavations at Sepphoris: The Location and Identification of Shikin: Part II."  Israel Exploration Journal 45:2-3 (1995) 171-87.
 
Strange, James F., Dennis E. Groh, Thomas R. W. Longstaff and C. Thomas McCullough.  "Sepphoris, 1996. Sepphoris, 1997. Sepphoris, 1998."  Israel Exploration Journal 49:1-2 (1999) 122-8.
 
Weiss, Ze'ev.  "Sepphoris. C. From Galilean Town to Roman City, 100 BCE–200 CE."  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) 53-75.
 
--------.  "Sepphoris (Sippori). 2005."  Israel Exploration Journal 55:2 (2005) 219-27.
 
--------.  "Sepphoris (Sippori). 2006."  Israel Exploration Journal 57:1 (2007) 96-106.
 
--------.  "Sepphoris (Sippori). 2007."  Israel Exploration Journal 57:2 (2007) 215-29.
 
--------.  "Sepphoris (Sippori), 2008."  Israel Exploration Journal 59:1 (2009) 101-112.
 
 
Associated Artifacts
 
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Adan-Bayewitz, David.  "A Lamp Mould from Sepphoris and the Location of Workshops for Lamp and Common Pottery Manufacture in Northern Palestine."  In The Roman and Byzantine Near East: Some Recent Archaeological Research (ed. John H. Humphrey; JRASup 14; Ann Arbor, Michigan: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1995) 1.177-82.
 
Adan-Bayewitz, David and Isadore Perlman.  "The Local Trade of Sepphoris in the Roman Period."  Israel Exploration Journal 40:2-3 (1990) 153-72.
 
Batey, Richard A.  "Did Antipas Build the Sepphoris Theater?"  In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 111-19.
 
--------.  "Subsurface Interface Radar at Sepphoris, Israel, 1985."  Journal of Field Archaeology 14:1 (1987) 1-8.
 
Chancey, Mark Alan.  "The Cultural Milieu of Ancient Sepphoris."  New Testament Studies 47:2 (2001) 127-45.
 
Craffert, Pieter F.  "Digging up Common Judaism in Galilee: Miqva'ot at Sepphoris as a Test Case."   Neotestamentica 34:1 (2000) 39-55.
 
Dark, K. R.  "Roman-period and Byzantine Landscapes between Sepphoris and Nazareth."  Palestine Exploration Quarterly 140:2 (2008) 87-102.
 
Eck, Werner.  "Statues and Inscriptions in Iudaea/Syria Palaestina."  In Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (ed. Yaron Z. Eliav, Elise A. Friedland and Sharon Herbert; Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 9; Dudley, Massachusetts: Peeters, 2008) 273-93.
 
Eshel, Hanan.  "A Note on 'Miqvaot' at Sepphoris."  In Archaeology and the Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Periods (ed. Douglas Ray Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough; South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 143; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997) 131-3.
 
Fradkin, Arlene.  "Animal Figures in the Basilical Building Mosaics at Roman Sepphoris, Lower Galilee, Israel."  Near Eastern Archaeology 62:4 (1999) 233-9.
 
--------.  "Long-Distance Trade in the Lower Galilee: New Evidence from Sepphoris."  In Archaeology and the Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Periods (ed. Douglas Ray Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough; South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 143; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997) 107-116.
 
Kühnel, Bianca.  "Jewish Art and 'Iconoclasm': The Case of Sepphoris."  In Representation in Religion: Studies in Honor of Moshe Barasch (ed. Jan Assmann and Albert I. Baumgarten; Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions 89; Boston: Brill, 2001) 161-80.
 
McCollough, C. Thomas and Douglas R. Edwards.  "Transformations of Space: The Roman Road at Sepphoris."  In Archaeology and the Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Periods (ed. Douglas Ray Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough; South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 143; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997) 135-42.
 
Meshorer, Yaakov.  "Sepphoris and Rome."  In Greek Numismatics and Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Margaret Thompson (ed. O. Mørkholm and N. M. Waggoner; Wetteren: Numismatique romaine, 1979) 159-71, pl. 18.
 
Meyers, Carol L., Ze'ev Weiss and Rebecca Martin Nagy, eds.  Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture.  Raleigh, North Carolina/Winona Lake, Indiana: North Carolina Museum of Art/Eisenbrauns, 1996.
 
Meyers, Eric M.  "Aspects of Roman Sepphoris in Light of Recent Archaeology."  In Early Christianity in Context: Monuments and Documents (ed. Frédéric Manns and Eugenio Alliata; Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Collectio Maior 38; Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1993) 29-36.
 
--------.  "The Ceramic Incense Shovels from Sepphoris: Another View."  In "I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times": Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (ed. Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2006) 865-78.
 
Meyers, Eric M., Ehud Netzer and Carol L. Meyers.  "Artistry in Stone: The Mosaics of Ancient Sepphoris."  Biblical Archaeologist 50:4 (1987) 223-31.
 
--------.  "Sepphoris: 'Ornament of All Galilee.'"  Biblical Archaeologist 49:1 (1986) 4-19.
 
Miller, Stuart S.  Studies in the History and Traditions of Sepphoris, Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity 37.  Leiden: Brill, 1984.  [Professor has a copy]
 
--------.  "Hellenistic and Roman Sepphoris: The Historical Evidence."  In Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture (Rebecca Martin Nagy, Carol L. Meyers, Eric M. Meyers, and Zeev Weiss; Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1996) 20-27, + additional image.
 
--------.  "New Perspectives on the History of Sepphoris."  In Galilee through the Centuries: Confluence of Cultures (ed. Eric M. Meyers; Duke Judaic Studies 1: Second International Conference on Galilee in Antiquity; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1999) 145-59.
 
--------.  "Sepphoris, the Well Remembered City."  Biblical Archaeologist 55:2 (1992) 74-83.
 
Porat, Pinhas and David Goren.  "A Greek Epitaph from Sepphoris."  Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 120 (1998) 64.
 
Rutgers, Leonard Victor.  "Incense Shovels at Sepphoris?" In ''Galilee through the Centuries: Confluence of Cultures (ed. Eric M. Meyers; Duke Judaic Studies 1: Second International Conference on Galilee in Antiquity; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1999) 177-98.
 
Talgam, Rina and Zeev Weiss.  The Mosaics of the House of Dionysos at Sepphoris Excavated by E. M. Meyers, E. Netzer and C. L. Meyers, Qedem: Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 44. Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Archaeology, 2004.
 
Tsuk, Tsvika.  "The Aqueducts to Sepphoris."  In Galilee through the Centuries: Confluence of Cultures (ed. Eric M. Meyers; Duke Judaic Studies 1: Second International Conference on Galilee in Antiquity; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1999) 161-75.
 
Weiss, Ze'ev.  "Greco-Roman Influence on the Art and Architecture of the Jewish City in Roman Palestine."  In Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine (ed. Hayim Lapin; Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture [The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland] 5; Bethesda, Maryland: University Press of Maryland, 1998) 219-46.
 
--------.  "Private Architecture in the Public Sphere: Urban Dwellings in Roman and Byzantine Sepphoris."  In From Antioch to Alexandria: Recent Studies in Domestic Architecture (ed. Katharina Galor and Tomasz Wliszewski, with contributions by Frédéric Nicolas Alpi et al.; Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology, Warsaw University, 2007) 125-36 + illustrations and plans.
 
--------.  "Sculptures and Sculptural Images in Urban Galilee."  In Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (ed. Yaron Z. Eliav, Elise A. Friedland and Sharon Herbert; Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 9; Dudley, Massachusetts: Peeters, 2008) 559-74.
 
Weiss, Ze'ev.  The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts, with contributions by Ehud Netzer et al.  Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2005.
 
Weiss, Ze'ev and Ehud Netzer.  "Architectural Development of Sepphoris during the Roman and Byzantine Periods."  In Archaeology and the Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Periods (ed. Douglas Ray Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough; South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 143; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997) 117-30.
 
--------.  Promise and Redemption: A Synagogue Mosaic from Sepphoris.  Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1997.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
  • Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 13.12 §5; 14.15 §4; 17.10 §9; 18.2 §1

  • Josephus, Jewish War 1.8 §5; 1.16 §2; 2.5 §1; 2.18–21; 3.2 §4; 3.4 §1

  • Meyers, Eric M.  "Sepphoris on the Eve of the Great Revolt (67–68 C.E.): Archaeology and Josephus."  In Galilee through the Centuries: Confluence of Cultures (ed. Eric M. Meyers; Duke Judaic Studies 1: Second International Conference on Galilee in Antiquity; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1999) 109-122.
     
    Miller, Stuart S.  "Josephus on the Cities of Galilee: Factions, Rivalries and Alliances in the First Jewish Revolt."  Historia 50:4 (2001) 453-67.
     
    Weiss, Zeev.  "Josephus and Archaeology on the Cities of the Galilee."  In Making History: Josephus and Historical Method (ed. Zuleika Rodgers; Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 110; Boston: Brill, 2007) 385-414.
  • Josephus, Life 9, 25, 37, 45, 65-67, 71, 74
 
 
Connections of Material to Jesus: Secondary Literature
 
Batey, Richard A.  "'Is Not This the Carpenter?'"  New Testament Studies 30:2 (1984) 249-58. .
 
--------.  "Jesus and the Theatre."  New Testament Studies 30:4 (1984) 563-74. .
 
--------.  "Sepphoris and the Jesus Movement."  New Testament Studies 47:3 (2001) 402-409.
 
Chancey, Mark and Eric M. Meyers.  "How Jewish Was Sepphoris in Jesus' Time?"  Biblical Archaeology Review 26:4 (2000) 18-33, 61.
 
Longstaff, Thomas R. W.  "Nazareth and Sepphoris: Insights into Christian Origins."  Anglican Theological Review 11 (1990) 8-15.
 
Meyers, Eric M.  "The Early Roman Period at Sepphoris: Chronological, Archaeological, Literary, and Social Considerations."  In Hesed ve-emet: Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs (ed. Jodi Magness and Seymour Gitin; Brown Judaic Studies 320; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998) 343-55.
 
--------.  "Jesus and His World: Sepphoris and the Quest for the Historical Jesus."  In Saxa loquentur: Studien zur Archäologie Palästinas/Israels: Festschrift für Volkmar Fritz zum 65. Geburtstag (ed. Cornelis Gijsbert den Hertog, Ulrich Hübner and Stefan Münger; Alter Orient und Altes Testament 302; Münster: Ugarit, 2003) 185-97.
 
Strange, James F.  "Recent Discoveries at Sepphoris and Their Relevance for Biblical Research."   Neotestamentica 34:1 (2000) 125-41.
 
 
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