The volume is...well worth the attention of both archaeologists and New Testament scholars. (Religious Studies Review)

The editors are to be congratulated for producing such a useful and timely volume. They have mixed scientific reports with literary studies to provide a range of information that can be useful to most scholars. (Biblical Archaeologist)

Rami Arav is director of excavations and research for the Bethsaida Excavations Project, and professor of religion and foreign languages at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Richard A. Freund is project director of the Bethsaida Excavations Project, and director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford.

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Abbreviations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part 1 Archaeologyand Geology of Bethsaida

1. Bethsaida Excavations: Preliminary Report, 1987–1993, Rami Arav

2. Geologic and Geographic Background to the Bethsaida Excavations, John F. Shroder Jr. and Moshe Inbar

3. Hellenistic and Roman Fineware from Bethsaida, Sandra Fortner

4. Hellenistic and Roman Ceramic Cooking Ware from Bethsaida, Toni Tessaro

5. An Israelite Bulla in Phoenician Style from Bethsaida (et-Tell), Baruch Brandl

6. The Coins of Philip, Fred Strickert

Part 2 Literature of Bethsaida

7. Bethsaida, Tzer, and the Fortified Cities of Naphtali, Rami Arav

8. Bethsaida-Julias in Roman and Jewish Military Strategies, 66–73 CE, John T. Greene

9. The Mighty Works of Bethsaida: Witness of the New Testament and Related Traditions, Mark Appold

10. Bethsaida in the Gospels: The Feeding Story in Luke 9 and the Q Saying in Luke 10, Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn

11. The Healing of a Blind Man at Bethsaida, John J. Rousseau

12. The Search for Bethsaida in Rabbinic Literature, Richard A. Freund

Contributors

Bibliography

Index of Scripture

Index of Rabinnical Writings

Index of Ancient Writings

Index