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Gamla
 


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Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files.
 
 
Archaeological Evidence
 
Excavation Reports
 
Bar-Kochva, Bezalel.  "Gamla in Gaulanitis."  Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins 92 (1976) 54-71.
 
Berlin, Andrea M.  Gamla 1: The Pottery of the Second Temple Period.  Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2006.
 
--------.  Gamla Second Temple Pottery, Israel Antiquities Authority Reports, 29th ed.  Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2006.
 
Syon, Danny and Zvi Yavor.  "Gamla 1997-2000."  Atiqot 50 (2005) 37-71.
 
 
Associated Artifacts
 
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Aviam, Mordechai.  "Socio-economic Hierarchy and its Economic Foundations in First Century Galilee: The Evidence from Yodefat and Gamla."  In Flavius Josephus: Interpretation and History (ed. Jack Pastor, Pnina Stern and Menahem Mor; JSJSup 146; Leiden: Brill, 2011) 29-38.
 
Isaac, Benjamin.  "Roman Victory Displayed: Symbols, Allegories, Personifications?"   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) 575-604.
 
Syon, Danny.  "Gamla—Portrait of a Rebellion."  Biblical Archaeology Review 18:1 (1992) 21-37, 72.
 
--------.  "Gamla: The Masada of the North."  Biblical Archaeology Review 5:1 (1979) 12-27.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
Josephus.  Jewish War 4.1.1-10 (§1-§83).
 
  • Josephus, vol. 3, The Jewish War, Books IV–VII, trans. H. St. J. Thackeray (Loeb Classical Library 210; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1928) 2-27.

  • The Works of Josephus, trans. William Whiston (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1987; original 1736) 664-8.
    [on the online version at Perseus, use the arrows below the text to advance to the next section; there are 10 sections for this excerpt]
 
 
Connections of Material to Jesus: Secondary Literature
 
Atkinson, Kenneth.  "Noble Deaths at Gamla and Masada? A Critical Assessment of Josephus' Accounts of Jewish Resistance in Light of Archaeological Discoveries."  In Making History: Josephus and Historical Method (ed. Zuleika Rodgers; Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 110; Boston: Brill, 2007) 349-71.
 
Aviam, Mordechai.  "The Archaeological Illumination of Josephus' Narrative of the Battles at Yodefat and Gamla."  In Making History: Josephus and Historical Method (ed. Zuleika Rodgers; Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 110; Boston: Brill, 2007) 372-84.
 
 
 
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