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Footnotes
The Seleucids were a dynasty of Hellenistic kings who ruled in Syria after the death of Alexander the Great.
The name Hasmonean refers to an ancestor of Judah Maccabee; it later became a family title for the Maccabees.
See Yitzhak Magen, “Ancient Israel’s Stone Age: Purity in Second Temple Times,” BAR 24:05.
See Richard A. Batey, “Sepphoris—An Urban Portrait of Jesus,” BAR 18:03.
Endnotes
Howard Clark Kee, “Early Christianity in the Galilee: Reassessing the Evidence from the Gospels,” in The Galilee in Late Antiquity, ed. Lee Levine (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992), p. 15.
Carol L. Meyers, “Sepphoris and Lower Galilee: Earliest Times Through the Persian Period,” in Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture, ed. Rebecca Martin Nagy et al. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 15–19.
Stuart S. Miller, “Hellenistic and Roman Sepphoris: The Historical Evidence,” in Sepphoris in Galilee, p. 22.
Miller, “Hellenistic and Roman Sepphoris,” pp. 24–25; Tosefta, Yoma 1.4; Tosefta, Sotah 13.7; some manuscripts of Mishnah, Yoma 6.3.
William Grantham, “A Zooarchaeological Model for the Study of Ethnic Complexity at Sepphoris” (Ph.D. diss., Northwestern Univ., 1996).
On second-century developments, see the essays in Sepphoris in Galilee, several of which address this topic. For detailed discussion of a monumental road and a reference to the agora, see C. Thomas McCollough and Douglas R. Edwards, “Transformation of Space: The Roman Road at Sepphoris,” in Archaeology and the Galilee, ed. Edwards and McCollough (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997), pp. 135–142.
Yaakov Meshorer, “Coins and Lead Weight,” in Sepphoris in Galilee, pp. 195–201; Eric C. Lapp, “Lamps,” in Sepphoris in Galilee, pp. 220–222, lamps 113, 114, 118.
S.H. Cormack, “Figurine of Pan(?) or a Satyr” and “Figurine of Promethus,” in Sepphoris in Galilee, pp. 171–172; Dennis E. Groh, “Figurine of the Head and Forelegs of a Bull,” in Sepphoris in Galilee, p. 173.