Description: What is a Galilean? What were the criteria of defining a person as a Galilean - archaeologically or with respect to literary sources such as Josephus or the rabbis? What role did religion play in the process of identity formation? Twenty-two articles based on papers read at conferences at Cambridge, Wuppertal and Yale by experts from 7 countries shed light on a complex region, the pivotal geographic and cultural context of both earliest Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. In these papers, ancient Galilee emerges as a dynamic region of continuous change, in which religion, 'ethnicity', and 'identity' were not static monoliths but had to be negotiated in the context of a multiform environment subject to different influences.
Brief description: Jurgen K. Zangenberg, Studium der evangelischen Theologie in Erlangen, Heidelberg und Edinburgh; Promotion zum Dr. theol. 1996 an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg; 2003 Habilitation an der Kirchlichen Hochschule und der Bergischen Universitat Wuppertal; seit 2006 Professor fur Neues Testament und Fruhchristliche Literatur sowie seit 2008 auch an der Fakultat fur Archaologie der Universitat Leiden/Niederlande.Harold W. Attridge, Born 1946; 1975 PhD; 1974-77 Junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows; 1977-85 taught at Perkins School of the Theology, Southern Methodist University, 1985-97 at the University of Notre Dame, since 1997 at Yale University Divinity School; since 2002 Dean.