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Below you find part 1 of a long article, titled:<\/p>\n
The Jewish Cultural Nature of Galilee in the First Century<\/a><\/p>\n It is\u00a0translated from Hebrew by Edward Levine. Because of its\u00a0length it is divided in three parts. The issue is discussed by scholars of Jewish history and of the history of the Oral Torah for subsequently, during the second to fourth centuries and even later, Galilee was the living center of the Jewish people and its leadership, and the place in which the Oral Torah was collected and in large degree created. It also is extensively dealt with by scholars of the beginnings of Christianity, since Jesus grew up in Nazareth in Lower Galilee, and his activity was centered mainly within the bounds of Galilee. Conversely, Jewish scholars of the history of the Halakhah or of talmudic literature in general, when discussing the cultural image of Galilee, refer in some degree to the history of Christianity or to the background of the beginnings of Christianity.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the issue has been discussed in the general literature of Jewish history and of the history of the Land of Israel. Similarly, many scholars, especially Christians, deal with it extensively both in general works on the life of Jesus and in studies devoted to Galilee and its Jewish cultural image.1<\/sup><\/a>Recently published books that bear directly upon the subject of this article include: F. Malinowski, Galilean Judaism in the Writings of Flavius Josephus<\/i> (Ann Arbor, 1973); G. Vermes, Jesus the Jew<\/i> (London, 1977); E.M. Meyeres and J.F. Strange, Archaeology, the Rabbis and Early Christianity<\/i> (Nashville, 1981); S. Fregne, Galilee from Alexander the Great to Hadrian<\/i> (Notre Dame, Indiana, 1987); R. Riesner, Jesus als Lehrer<\/i> (Tubingen, 1987); M. Goodman, State and Society in Roman Galilee A.D. 132-212<\/i> (Totowa, New Jersey, 1983); W. Bosen, Galilaa als Lebensraum und Wirkungsfeld Jesu<\/i> (Basel and Vienna, 1985).<\/span><\/span>
\nAlso available in\u00a0scanned pages<\/a> and in a pdf-file<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nHere we give the Introduction<\/strong>
\nand the Table of Contents<\/a><\/strong>,
\nwith links to\u00a0the other parts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThere is a great deal of literature describing the Jewish cultural nature of Galilee in the first century C.E. Several scholarly fields are involved.<\/p>\n