Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
List of Tables and Illustrations
Preface
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Religion and Architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean
PART TWO: TOWNS AND VILLAGES
2. Jesus and Palestinian Social Protest in Archaeological and Literary Perspective
3. 3-D Visualizations of a First-Century Galilean Town
4. Khirbet Qana (and Other Villages) as a Context for Jesus
5. First-Century Houses and Q's Setting
6. What has Cana to do with Capernaum?
PART THREE: SYNAGOGUES AND CHURCHES
7. Pre-70 Synagogues as Collegia in Rome, the Diaspora, and Judea
8. Architectural Transitions from Synagogues and House Churches to Purpose-Built Churches
9. Philo and Eusebius on Monasteries and Monasticism: The Therapeutae and Kellia
10. Jewish Voluntary Associations in Egypt and the Roles of Women
11. Building a "Synodos... and a Place of their Own"
12. An Architectural Case for Synagogues as Associations
PART FOUR: JUDEA AND JERUSALEM
13. Law and Piety in Herod's Architecture
14. Why Turn the Tables? Jesus' Protest in the Temple Precincts
15. Josephus, Nicolas of Damascus, and Herod's Building Program
16. Origins, Innovations, and Significance of Herod's Temple
17. Herod's Temple Architecture and Jerusalem's Tombs
18. The James Ossuary's Decoration and Social Setting
PART FOUR: CONCLUSION
19. Building Jewish in the Roman East
Notes
Glossary
Further Reading
Indexes
Ancient Sources
Modern Authors
Sites and Places