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Donald Ariel, “Coins From the Synagogue at ‘En Nashut,” Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ) 37 (1987) pp. 147–57.

See also, Eric Meyers, “The Cultural Setting of Galilee: The Case of Regionalism and Early Judaism,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der Romischen Welt II, 19.1 (1979), pp. 686–702.

I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Tzateris, who contributed many ideas incorporated into this paper. All faults and shortcomings, however, are the sole property of the author.

Averett College, Danville, VA; British Columbia University, Vancouver; Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, TX; Notre Dame University, IN; Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA; Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO.

For the major archaeological publication of the Franciscans see Virgilio Corbo, Stanislao Loffreda and Agusto Spijkerman, Cafarnao, 3 vols. Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1975). For a much less technical, popular discussion in English see Loffreda, A Visit to Capharnaum (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1980); and his Recovering Capharnaum, (Jerusalem: Edizioni Custodia Terra Santa, 1985).

A. M. Schneider, “Hirbet el-Minye am See Genesareth,” Annals archaeologiques de Syria 2 (1952), pp. 23–45.

Edward Robinson, Later Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions. A Journal of Travels in the Year 1852 (Boston: Crocker and Brewster, vol. 3, 1857)’ pp. 348–358. Robinson was followed in this identification by G. A. Smith, The Historical Geography of the Holy Land (New York: Armstrong and Son, 1903), pp. 456–457.

This flexibility and the resultant processes of nomadization and sedentarization in recent generations have been described by Norman Lewis, Nomads and Settlers in Syria and Jordan, 1800–1980 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987).

Undertaken in 1968 by Andrews University, the project has been directed by Siegfried Horn, Roger S. Boraas, Lawrence T. Geraty and others. The other published volumes in the series are Hesban 2—Environmental Foundations, edited by Øystein LaBianca and Larry Lacelle; Hesban 3—Historial Foundations: Studies of Literary References to Hesban and Vicinity by Lawrence T. Gerary and Leona G. Running; and Hesban 7—Hellenistic and Roman Strata by Larry Mitchel.

Scholars have shunned a public discussion of the book on the grounds that it is not a scholarly work. A presentation by Hancock planned for the University of Toronto about a year and a half ago was abruptly canceled when, according to reports, some scholars vehemently opposed it.