Sepphoris Bibliography
Adan-Bayewitz, David; Perlman, Isadore, "The local trade of Sepphoris in the Roman period," Israel Exploration Journal, 40 no 2-3 (1990), p. 153-172.
Adan-Bayewitz, David, "A Lamp mould from Sepphoris and the location of workshops or lamp and common pottery manufacture in northern Palestine," The Roman and Byzantine Near East, pp. 177-182. Ann Arbor, Mich : Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1995. Suppl Series.
Avigad, Nigel, The "Tomb of Jacob's daughters" near Sepphoris" : [Hebrew, with English summary p 23*], Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical and GeographicalStudies ; 11, I. Dunayevsky memorial volume, p. 41-44, Jerusalem : Israel Exploration Society, 1973.
Avi-Yonah, Michael, "A Sixth-century inscription from Sepphoris," Israel Exploration Journal, 11 no 4 (1961), p. 184-187.
Batey, Richard A., "Jesus and the theatre," New Testament Studies, 30 No 4 (O 1984), p. 563-574.
Batey, Richard A, "Is not this the carpenter," New Testament Studies, 30 (Ap 1984), p. 249-258
Abstract/Note: This article investigates the significance of Jesus's work as a carpenter (tekton) for understanding his life and ministry. Jesus is called a carpenter only once in the New Testament (Mark 6:3). Since an occupation is an important expression of a person's life, "a clearer comprehension of Jesus's trade holds the promise of a better understanding of the man behind the kerygma of the Christian community". Herod Antipas in 3 BC began to build Sepphoris, just four miles north of Nazareth, as his new Hellenistic capital. The author explores the possible influences on Jesus and his world resulting from this major construction project.
Batey, Richard A., Jesus and the Forgotten City : New Light on Sepphoris and the Urban World of Jesus. Grand Rapids : Baker Bk House, 1991. (221 p.)
Batey, Richard A., "Sepphoris : an urban portrait of Jesus," Biblical Archaeology Review, 18 (My-Je 1992), p. 50-62
Boelter, Francis W., "Sepphoris : seat of the Galilean sanhedrin," Explor, 3 No 1 (1977), p. 36-43.
Dessel, J P; Meyers, Eric M; Meyers, Carol L, "Tel En Sippori, 1993," Israel Exploration Journal, 45, no 4 (1995), p. 288-292.
Folda, Jaroslaw, "The Church of Saint Anne," Biblical Archaeologist, 54 (Je 1991), p. 88-96
Gershenzon, Rosalie; Slomovic, Elieser, "A second century Jewish-gnostic debate: Rabbi Jose Ben Halafta and the matrona," Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period, 16 (Je 1985), p. 1-41
Abstract/Note: The essay examines the issues posed by the existence of an unusual number of polemical midrashim featuring religious debates between Rabbi Jose ben Halafta [of Sepphoris], a 2d century CE Palestinian sage, and a "matrona". Through careful analysis of the texts involved, it appears probable that they reflect the Jewish-Gnostic confrontation of that period. These debates, whether historical or literary, present important elements from the arsenal of gnostic attacks on the biblical God and the rabbinic refutations of these attacks and reveal much about the methodologies of gnostic scriptural exegesis and rabbinic counter-exegesis.
Hessert, Paul (ed.), "Galilee and regionalism," Explor, 3 No 1 (1977), p. 1-96
Abstract/Note: Survey in Galilee: 1976, by Eric W.Meyers and James F.Strange; Galilee before Jesus, by Wolfgang Roth; Sepphoris, seat of the Galilean Sanhedrin, by Francis W.Boelter; Josephus' Galilee revisited: Akbara, Yodefat, and Gamala, by Albert C.Sundberg, Jr.; Galilee and christology, by W.Richard Stegner; Christian synagogues and Jewish-Christianity in Galilee, by Ernest W. Saunders; Galilee and the Eastern Roman Empire in late antiquity, by Dennis Groh.
Levine, Lee I (ed.), The Galilee in late antiquity. Kibbutz Hanaton, August 13-15, 1989. New York and Jerusalem : Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992. (xxiii, 410 p.)Conference proceedings
Abstract/Note: Early Christianity in the Galilee: reassessing the evidence from the Gospels, H Kee. The Gospel of Matthew and Jewish-Christian conflict in the Galilee, A Saldarini. Literary evidence for Jewish Christianity in the Galilee, A Baumgarten. The socio-economic and cultural ethos of the Lower Galilee in the first century: implications for the nascent Jesus movement, D Edwards. Urban-rural relations in first-century Galilee: some suggestions from the literary sources, S Freyne. How anti-Roman was the Galilee?, U Rappaport. The Roman army in the Galilee, Z Safrai. Roman rule and the cities of the Galilee in Talmudic literature, A Oppenheimer. The Roman state and the Jewish Patriarch in the third century, M Goodman. Was there a Galilean halakha?, L Schiffman. The place of the rabbi in Jewish society of the second century, S Cohen. R Hanina bar Hama at Sepphoris, S Miller. The sages and the synagogue in late antiquity: the evidence of the Galilee, L Levine. The Galilean background of Mishnaic Hebrew, G Rendsburg. The Aramaic Targum as a mirror of Galilean Jewry, A Shinan.. Rabbinic views on the practice of Targum, and multilingualism in the Jewish Galilee of the third-sixth centuries, S Fraade. The ancient synagogues of the Galilee, G Foerster. Roman Sepphoris in light of new archeological evidence and recent research, E Meyers. Six campaigns at Sepphoris: the University of South Florida excavations, 1983-1989, J Strange. Social aspects of burial in Beth Shearim: archeological finds and Talmudic sources, Z Weiss.
Longstaff, Thomas R W., "Nazareth and Sepphoris : insights into Christian origins," Anglican Theological Review, suppl no 11 (Mr 1990), p. 8-15.
Meyers, Eric M; Meyers, Carol L; Hoglund, Kenneth G., "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1994" Israel Exploration Journal, 45, no 1 (1995), p. 68-71.
Meyers, Eric M, "Galilee in the Time of Jesus" Archaeology, 47 (N-D 1994), p. 41.
Meyers, Eric M; Meyers, Carol L; Hoglund, Kenneth G., "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1993." Israel Exploration Journal, 44, no 3-4 (1994), p. 247-250.
Meyers, Eric M, "The Challenge of Hellenism for Early Judaism and Christianity," Biblical Archaeologist, 55 (Je 1992), p. 84-91.
Meyers, Eric M; Netzer, Ehud; Meyers, Carol L., "Artistry in stone : the mosaics of ancient Sepphoris." Biblical Archaeologist, 50 (D 1987), p. 223-231.
Meyers, Carol L; Meyers, Eric M; Netzer, Ehud, Sepphoris. Winona Lake, Ind: Eisenbrauns, 1992. (63 p.).
Meyers, Eric M; Meyers, Carol L; Netzer, Ehud, "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1985, pt 1." Israel Exploration Journal, 35 No 4 (1985), p. 295-297.
Meyers, Eric M; Netzer, Ehud; Meyers, Carol L., "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1986 (I)-- Joint Sepphoris Project," Israel Exploration Journal, 37 no 4 (1987), p. 275-278.
Meyers, Eric M; Netzer, Ehud; Meyers, Carol L., "Sepphoris : 'ornament of all Galilee'" Biblical Archaeologist, 49 No 1 (Mr 1986), p. 4-19.
Meyers, Eric M., "Aspects of Roman Sepphoris in the light of recent archaeology." Early Christianity in context, p. 29-36. Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Pr, 1993.
Miller, Stuart S., "Sepphoris, the Well Remembered City" : [possible connection to Jesus; reply to Jesus and the Forgotten City, by R A Batey, 1991], Biblical Archaeologist, 55 (Je 1992), p. 74-83.
Miller, Stuart S., "The Minim of Sepphoris Reconsidered," Harvard Theological Review, 86 (O 1993), p. 377-402.
"Mosaic masterpiece dazzles Sepphoris volunteers," Biblical Archaeology Review, 14 no 1 (1988), p. 30-33.
Netzer, Ehud; Weiss, Zeev, "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1991-1992." Israel Exploration Journal, 43, no 2-3 (1993), p. 190-196.
Netzer, Ehud; Weiss, Zeev, "New mosaic art from Sepphoris," Biblical Archaeology Review, 18 (N-D 1992), p. 36-43,78.
North Carolina Museum of Art Presents Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture, Biblical Archaeologist, 60 (Mr 1997), p. 54.
Sawicki, Marianne, "Archaeology as space technology : Digging for gender and class in holy land," Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 6, no 4 (1994), pp. 319-348.
Stock, Augustine, "Jesus, hypocrites, and Herodians," Biblical Theology Bulletin, 16 No 1 (Ja 1986), p. 3-7.
Strange, James F; Groh, Dennis H; Longstaff, Thomas R W., "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1988," Israel Exploration Journal, 39 no 1-2 (1989), p. 104-106.
Strange, James F; Groh, Dennis E; Longstaff, Thomas R W., "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1987," Israel Exploration Journal, 38 no 3 (1988), p. 188-190.
Strange, James F; Groh, Dennis E; Longstaff, Thomas R W., "Excavations at Sepphoris : The Location and Identification of Shikhin" Israel Exploration Journal, 44, no 3-4 (1994), p. 216-22745, no 3 (1995), p. 171-187.
Strange, James F; Longstaff, Thomas R W., "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1986 (II)" Israel Exploration Journal, 37 no 4 (1987), p. 278-280.
Strange, James F; Longstaff, Thomas R W., "Sepphoris, 1985," Revue biblique, 93 No 2 (Ap 1986), p. 252-254.
Strange, James F; Longstaff, Thomas R W., "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1985, pt 2," Israel Exploration Journal, 35 No 4 (1985), p. 299-301.
Strange, James F; Longstaff, Thomas R W., "Sepphoris (1984)," Revue biblique, 92 (Jl 1985), p. 429.
Strange, James F; Longstaff, Thomas R W., "Sepphoris (Sippori)--survey, 1984," Israel Exploration Journal, 34 No 4 (1984), p. 269-270.
Strange, James F., "Sepphoris et autres sites de basse Galilee," Revue biblique, 91 (Ap 1984), p. 239-241.
Strange, James F; Longstaff, Thomas R W., "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1983," Israel Exploration Journal, 34 No 1 (1984), p. 51-52.
Strange, James F; Groh, Dennis E; Longstaff, Thomas R W., "Sepphoris (Sippori), 1987," Israel Exploration Journal, 38 no 3 (1988), p. 188-190.
Strange, James F., "Six campaigns at Sepphoris : the University of South Florida excavations, 1983-1989." Galilee in late antiquity, The, p. 339-355. New York and Jerusalem : Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992.
Weiss, Zeev; Netzer, Ehud, "New evidence for late-Roman and Byzantine Sepphoris." The Roman and Byzantine Near East, pp. 162-176. Ann Arbor, Mich: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1995, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Suppl. Series.
Assembled from ATLA Religion, Feb. 23, 1999