Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files.
Archaeological Evidence
Excavation Websites
Israel Antiquities Authority: Yodfat - A summary of the chief findings in ancient Jotapata, site of an important battle during the First Jewish Revolt (66-74 C.E.).
Excavation Reports
Adan-Bayewitz, David and Mordechai Avi’am. "Iotapata, Josephus, and the Siege of 67: Preliminary Report on the 1992–94 Seasons." Journal of Roman Archaeology 10 (1997) 131-65, with four color plates.
Adan-Bayewitz, David, Mordechai Avi’am and Douglas R. Edwards. "Yodefat – 1992." In Excavations and Surveys in Israel, vol. 16 (ed. Ayala Sussmann, Dafnah Strauss and Rachel Kudish; Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1997) 42-4.
Aviam, Mordechai. "Yodefat—Jotapata: A Jewish Galilean Town at the End of the Second Temple Period: The Results of an Archaeological Project." 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) 109-126.
Aviam, Mordechai. "Yodfat." In The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, vol. 5, Supplementary Volume (ed. Ephraim Stern, Ayellet Lewinson–Gilboa, and Joseph Aviram; Washington, D.C.: Israel Exploration Society and Biblical Archaeological Society, 2008) 2076–78.
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.
Green, William Scott. "It Takes a Village: Preliminary Reflections on Yodefat in the History of Judaism." In Religious Texts and Material Contexts (ed. Jacob Neusner and James F. Strange; Studies in Ancient Judaism; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2001) 141-9.
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.
Rochman, Bonnie. "Mass Grave May Date to Jewish Revolt: Josephus Gets a Boost." Biblical Archaeology Review 23:6 (1997) 26.
Literary Evidence
Primary Texts
Josephus. Jewish War 3.7.3-36 (§141-§339).
Josephus, vol. 2, The Jewish War, Books I–III, trans. H. St. J. Thackeray (Loeb Classical Library 203; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1927) 618-71.
The Works of Josephus, trans. William Whiston (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1987; original 1736) 646-54. [on the online version at Perseus, use the arrows below the text to advance to the next section; there are 34 sections for this excerpt]
Connections of Material to Jesus: Secondary Literature
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.
