Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files.
Archaeological Evidence
Excavation Websites
Kinneret Regional Project - a regional project on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee jointly sponsored by the Universities of Bern (Switzerland), Helsinki (Finland), Leiden (The Netherlands) and Wofford College (Spartanburg, South Carolina), in collaboration with the Finnish Institute of the Middle East.
Excavation Reports
Meyers, Eric M., James F. Strange and Dennis E. Groh. "The Meiron Excavation Project: Archeological Survey in
Galilee and Golan, 1976." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 230 (1978) 1-24.
Adan-Bayewitz, David. Common Pottery in Roman Galilee: A Study of Local Trade, Bar-Ilan Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Culture. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1993.
Aviam, Mordechai. "First Century Jewish Galilee: An Archaeological Perspective." In Religion and Society in Roman Palestine: Old Problems and New Approaches (ed. Douglas R. Edwards; New York: Routledge, 2004) 7-27.
Edwards, Douglas R., ed. Religion and Society in Roman Palestine: Old Questions, New Approaches. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Edwards, Douglas R. and C. Thomas McCollough. "Archaeology and the Galilee: An Introduction." 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) 1-6.
Edwards, Douglas R. and C. Thomas McCullough, eds. Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the Other in Antiquity, Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers, ASOR Annual. ASOR, 2007.
Freyne, Seán V. Galilee, From Alexander the Great to Hadrian, 323 B.C.E. to 135 C.E.: A Study of Second Temple Judaism. Wilmington, Delaware/Notre Dame, Indiana: M. Glazier/University of Notre Dame Press, 1980.
Galor, Katharina. "Domestic Architecture in Roman and Byzantine Galilee." Near Eastern Archaeology 66:1-2 (2003) 44-57.
Groh, Dennis E. "The Clash between Literary and Archaeological Models of Provincial Palestine." 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) 29-37.
Grootkerk, Salomon E. Ancient Sites in Galilee: A Toponymic Gezetteer. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
Hirschfeld, Yizhar and Giora Solar. "Sumptuous Roman Baths Uncovered near Sea of Galilee: Hot Springs Drew the Afflicted from around the World." Biblical Archaeology Review 10:6 (1984) 22-40.
Kealy, Seán P. "Galilee in Jesus' Time." Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association 20 (1997) 81-94.
Lapin, Hayim. Economy, Geography, and Provincial History in Later Roman Palestine. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2001.
Longstaff, Thomas R. W. and Tristram C. Hussey. "Palynology and Cultural Process: An Exercise in the New Archaeology." 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) 151-62.
Meyers, Eric M., ed. Galilee through the Centuries: Confluence of Cultures, Duke Judaic Studies 1. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1999.
Miller, Stuart S. At the Intersection of Texts and Material Finds: Stepped Pools, Stone Vessels, and Ritual Purity among the Jews of Roman Galilee, Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements 16. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015.
Moreland, Milton. "The Galilean Response to Earliest Christianity: A Cross-cultural Study of the Subsistence Ethic." In Religion and Society in Roman Palestine: Old Questions, New Approaches (ed. Douglas R. Edwards; New York: Routledge, 2004) 37-48.
Overman, J. Andy. "Recent Advances in the Archaeology of the Galilee in the Roman Period." Currents in Research 1 (1993) 35-57.
Richardson, Peter. Building Jewish in the Roman East, JSJSup 92. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2004.
--------. "Jewish Galilee: Its Hellenization, Romanization, and Commercialization." In Redefining First-Century Jewish and Christian Identities: Essays in Honor of Ed Parish Sanders (ed. Fabian E. Udoh, with Susannah Heschel, Mark Chancey and Gregory Tatum; Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity; Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008) 213-26.
Sawicki, Marianne. Crossing Galilee: Architectures of Contact in the Occupied Land of Jesus. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000.
--------. "Spatial Management of Gender and Labor in Greco-Roman Galilee." 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) 7-28.
Strange, James F. "New Developments in Greco-Roman Archeology in Palestine." Biblical Archaeologist 45:2 (1982) 85-8.
Williams, Paul Allen. "Gospel Cities: Real, Imagined, and Avoided." In Cities through the Looking Glass: Essays on the History and Archaeology of Biblical Urbanism (ed. Rami Arav; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2008) 23-37.
Zangenberg, Jürgen, Harold W. Attridge and Dale B. Martin, eds. Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee: A Region in Transition. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.
Literary Evidence
Primary Texts
Connections of Material to Jesus: Secondary Literature
Arnal, William E. Jesus and the Village Scribes: Galilean Conflicts and the Setting of Q. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.
Chancey, Mark A. Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
--------. The Myth of a Gentile Galilee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Crossan, John Dominic and Jonathan L. Reed. Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.
Freyne, Seán V. "Archaeology and the Historical Jesus." In Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation (ed. John R. Bartlett; London: Routledge, 1997) 117-44.
--------. "Archaeology and the Historical Jesus." In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 64-83.
--------. Galilee and Gospel: Collected Essays. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000.
--------. "Galilee as Laboratory: Experiments for New Testament Historians and Theologians." New Testament Studies 53:2 (2007) 147-64.
--------. "Galilee, Jesus and the Contribution of Archaeology." Expository Times 119:12 (2008) 573-81.
--------. Galilee, Jesus and the Gospels: Literary Approaches and Historical Investigations. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1988.
--------. Jesus, A Jewish Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus Story. London: T & T Clark, 2005.
--------. "Jesus in Jewish Galilee." In Redefining First-Century Jewish and Christian Identities: Essays in Honor of Ed Parish Sanders (ed. Fabian E. Udoh, with Susannah Heschel, Mark Chancey and Gregory Tatum; Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity; Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008) 197-212.
--------. "Town and Country Once More: The Case of Roman Galilee." 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) 49-56.
Hanson, K. C. and Douglas E. Oakman. Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts, 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008.
Horsley, Richard A. "Archaeology and the Villages of Upper Galilee: A Dialogue with Archaeologists." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 297 (1995) 5-16. [See Meyers 1995 for a response]
--------. Archaeology, History, and Society in Galilee: The Social Context of Jesus and the Rabbis. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1996.
--------. "Response." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 297 (1995) 27-8. [See Meyers, "An Archaeological Response"]
Jensen, Morten Hørning. Herod Antipas in Galilee: The Literary and Archaeological Sources on the Reign of Herod Antipas and Its Socio-economic Impact on Galilee. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.
Meyers, Eric M. "An Archaeological Response to a New Testament Scholar." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 297 (1995) 17-26.
--------. "Galilee in the Time of Jesus." Archaeology 47:6 (1994) 41.
--------. "Jesus and His Galilean Context." 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) 57-66.
Moreland, Milton C. "The Jesus Movement in the Villages of Roman Galilee: Archaeology, Q, and Modern Anthropological Theory." In Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and Hidden Transcript in Q (ed. Richard A. Horsley; SBL Semeia Studies 60; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006) 159-80.
Nun, Mendel. "Cast Your Net Upon the Waters: Fish and Fishermen in Jesus’ Time." Biblical Archaeology Review 19:6 (1993) 46-56, 70.
--------. "Ports of Galilee: Modern Drought Reveals Harbors from Jesus' Time." Biblical Archaeology Review 25:4 (1999) 18-31.
Overman, J. Andy. "Jesus of Galilee and the Historical Peasant." 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) 67-73.
Reed, Jonathan L. Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus: A Re-examination of the Evidence. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000.
Schuler, Mark T. "Recent Archaeology of Galilee and the Interpretation of Texts from the Galilean Ministry of Jesus." Concordia Theological Quarterly 71:2 (2007) 99-117.
Silberman, Neil Asher. "Searching for Jesus: The Politics of First-Century Judea." Archaeology 47:6 (1994) 30-40.
Stegemann, Ekkehard W. and Wolfgang Stegemann. The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century, trans. O.C. Dean, Jr. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.
Strange, James F. "First Century Galilee from Archaeology and from the Texts." 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) 39-48.
Vale, Ruth. "Literary Sources in Archaeological Description: The Case of Galilee, Galilees and Galileans." Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 18:2 (1987) 209-226.
von Wahlde, Urban C. "Archaeology and John's Gospel." In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 523-86.
