REQUIRED READING
Books
Avni, Gideon. The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach. Oxford University Press, 2014. (1–39, 107–159, 189–190, 300–343)
Bowersock, G. W. Mosaics as History?: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Levine, Lee I., Visual Judaism: Historical Contexts of Jewish Art. Yale University Press: New Haven, 2012 (179–293, 337–362, 403–438, 456–467)
Sivan, Hagith, Palestine in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 (1–50, 107–142, 187–229)
Articles
Avner, Rina. “The Dome of the Rock in Light of the Development of Concentric Martyria in Jerusalem: Architecture and Architectural Iconography.” Muqarnas 27 (2010): 31–49.
Avni, Gideon, & Jon Seligman. “Between the Temple Mount/ Haram El-Sharīf and the Holy Sepulchre: Archaeological Involvement in Jerusalem’s Holy Places.” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 19, no. 2 (December 2006): 259–88.
Berlin Andrea M. “Household Judaism.” Pp. 208-215 in Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods. Edited by David A. Fiensy and James Riley Strange. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014.
Chancey, Mark A. Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 193-220. (‘Greco-Roman Art and the Shifting Limits of Acceptability’)
Deines, Roland. “Religious Practices and Religious Movements in Galilee: 100 BCE–200 CE.” Pp. 78-111 in Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods. Edited by David A. Fiensy and James Riley Strange. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014.
Ettinghausen, Richard, Grabar, Oleg & Marilyn Jenkins-Madina. Islamic Art and Architecture 650–1250. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2001, pp. 15–27.
Fowden, Elizabeth. ”Sharing Holy Places”, Common Knowledge, Vo. 8.1, 2002, 124-146.
Hammer, Keir, E., and Murray, Michelle, “Acquaintances, Supporters, and Competitors: Evidence of Inter-Connectedness and Rivalry among the Religious Groups in Sardis. Pp. 175–194 in Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna. Edited by Richard S. Ascough. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005. (19 pp).
Kühnel, Bianca. “The Holy Land as a Factor in Christian Art”. Pp. 463–84 in Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land: From the Origins to the Latin Kingdoms. Ed. by Limor, Ora & Guy G. Stroumsa. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 5. Turnhout:Brepols. 2006.
Levine, Lee I. “Jewish Identities in Antiquity: An Introductory Essay.” Pp. 12–40 in Jewish Identities in Antiquity: Studies in Memory of Menahem Stern, edited by Lee I. Levine and D. R. Schwartz. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009.
Levine, Lee I. “The Synagogues of Galilee.” Pp. 129–150 in Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods. Edited by David A. Fiensy and James Riley Strange. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014.
Meyers, Eric M., and Mark A. Chancey. Alexander to Constantine: Archaeology of the Land of the Bible. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. 174-1202. (‘The Emergence of Christianity’)
Pummer, Reinhard. The Samaritans: A Profile. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016. Pp. 1-25, 74-118 (“Introduction”; “Identity”; “Archaeological Excavations”)
Runesson, Anders. “Jewish and Christian Interaction From the First to the Fifth Centuries” in The Early Christian World (2nd ed.; London: Routledge, 2017 [forthcoming]). 20pp.
Anders Runesson and Wally V. Cirafesi, "The Reception of Jesus in the Art and Architecture of Early Christ-Groups: The Cases of Capernaum, Kefar ‘Othnay, and Dura Europos," in The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries, ed. C. Keith, H. Bond, and J. Schroeter (London: T&T Clark), forthcoming.
Talgam, Rina. “The Representation of the Temple and Jerusalem in Jewish and Christian Houses of Prayer in the Holy Land in Late Antiquity”. Pp. 222–48 in Jews, Christians and the Roman Empire: The Poetics of Power in Late Antiquity. Ed. by Dohrmann, Natalie B. & Annette Yoshiko Reed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.