Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Joseph Scales -- Chapter 2 The Material Culture of Purity in Late Second Temple Period Galilee / Joseph Scales -- Chapter 3 Purity in Late Second Temple Period Judaism / Joseph Scales -- Chapter 4 Jewish Communal Structures in Late Second Temple Period Galilee / Joseph Scales -- Chapter 5 Textual Evidence for Jewish Communal Structures in the Late Second Temple Period / Joseph Scales -- Chapter 6 Regional Space in Galilee / Joseph Scales -- Chapter 7 Conclusions / Joseph Scales.

We understand the world around us in terms of built spaces. Such spaces are shaped by human activity, and in turn, affect how people live. Through an analysis of archaeological and textual evidence from the beginnings of Hasmonean influence in Galilee, until the outbreak of the First Jewish War against Rome, this book explores how Judaism was socially expressed: bodily, communally, and regionally. Within each expression, certain aspects of Jewish identity operate, these being purity conceptions, communal gatherings, and Galilee's relationship with the Hasmoneans, Jerusalem, and the Temple in its final days.

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