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19 - Galilean Judaism and Judaean Judaism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2008

By
Martin Goodman
Edited by
William Horbury ,
W. D. Davies  and
John Sturdy
Martin Goodman
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
William Horbury
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
W. D. Davies
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
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Summary

The possibility that the religion of Jews in Galilee differed markedly from that of their compatriots in Judaea has been of considerable interest to modern scholars for two reasons. First, any such distinction, if it existed, might have profound implications for the career and teaching of Jesus and for the development of the early Church. Secondly, understanding of any distinctive practices and beliefs in Galilee before ce 135 might throw light on the development of Judaism after that date, for in the middle and late second century ce, following the expulsion of all Jews from the area around Jerusalem, the main centres of rabbinic learning were to be found in Galilee.

REASONS TO EXPECT A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO AREAS

No literary evidence survives from Galilee to suggest that the inhabitants thought of themselves as Galileans rather than simply as Jews, and the detailed narrative set in Galilee by Josephus, the only contemporary author known to have been well acquainted with the region, singularly fails to mention anything special about the Judaism practised there. However, later rabbinic texts preserve traditions that religious life differed from that in the south.

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The Cambridge History of Judaism , pp. 596 - 617
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1999

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