The Myth of a Gentile Galilee

Abstract

Upper Galilee Conclusion 4 Galilee and the circle of nations The "foreign nations" Galilee and the neighboring areas Conclusion Conclusion Was Galilee known as "Galilee of the Gentiles?" The Historical Jesus's contact with gentiles The cultural atmosphere of ancient Galilee Conclusion Bibliography Index of passages Selective index of places Selective index of people and topics

Identity in Jesus' Galilee—From Ethnicity to Locative Intersectionality

“…25 Other scholars conclude their discussions of the identity of the Galileans with the term "Jewish" as a self-explanatory category. 26 In a criticism of such usage, Milton Moreland argues that both "Galilee" and "Jewish" are terms that need to be defined before historians make use of them. To use "Jewish" to characterize the identity of Galilee raises the question of what category the term is, is it "ethnic, geo-political, religious, cultural or serogenetive?"…”

Textual Criticism and the Historical Jesus

“…He writes: 'If Jesus passed from Sidon through the territory of Damascus en route to the Sea of Galilee, he would have followed the route Mark depicts'. 43 Furthermore, if Gerasa was a more well-known city of the region, it makes perfect sense (despite McRay's objections) as to why Mark or Luke would use it as a geographical marker with the event occurring in the cw, ra ('region' or 'distinct') of Gerasa. 44 Th e area was of interest to the Jews of Palestine as it was located on the eastern border of Perea (Josephus, War 3.47).…”

A clash of symbolic universes: Judeanism vs Hellenism

“…Even Herod's descendents continued to some degree in the spirit of their father. The construction of Sepphoris and Tiberias by Antipas saw the introduction of Roman-Hellenistic elements for the first time in Galilee (Reed 2000;Chancey 2002). Tiberias was named after the emperor, and Antipas introduced pictures of animals in the palace (Life 12.65).…”