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Stefano De Luca, “La città ellenistico-romana di Magdala/Taricheae. Gli scavi del Magdala Project 2007 e 2008: relazione preliminare e prospettive di indagine,” Liber Annuus 59 (2009), p. 343.
The stamp is published in Anna Gonosovà and Christine Kondoleon, eds., Art of Late Rome and Byzantium in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond: Virginia Museum of Art, 1994).
R. Elter, “Le complexe du bain du Monastère de Saint Hilarion à Umm El-’Amr, première synthèse architecturale,” Syria 85 (2008), pp. 129–144; Judith Sudilovsky, “Bathhouse Uncovered at Kursi. Early Pilgrimage Site Marks ‘Swine Miracle,’” BAR 29:01, p. 18.
The Italian Archaeological Mission to Hierapolis in Phrygia was founded by Prof. Paolo Verzone of the Politecnico of Turin; today, it is headed by Prof. Francesco D’Andria of the University of the Salento, Lecce.
See the fascinating treatments of these issues in Mark Lilla, The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (New York: Knopf, 2007); Jonathan I. Israel, A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2009); and Jonathan Sheehan, The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2005).
See Lawrence E. Stager, “The Patrimonial Kingdom of Solomon,” in William G. Dever and Seymour Gitin, eds., Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003), pp. 63–74; and J. David Schloen, The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2001).
