The Bagatti-Testa hypothesis; Jewish-Christians in Palestine; the distribution of religious groups in Palestine from AD 135 to 324; Mamre; Bethlehem; Golgotha; Eleona; caves and tombs; the Bethany cave, Gethsemane and the tomb of the Virgin; Zion; Nazareth; Capernaum; the evolution of the Christain holy places.
Winner of Levil Sala Prize for a book on archaeology in Israel, 1995
Her arguments are always well-constructed and generally persuasive. This book is must reading for all who study and teach early church history or the archaeology of the New Testament. William H. Stiebing, American Historical Review ...this well-structured, erudite, and often stimulating study is an important contribution to the study of the history of Christian aspirations for, and interest in, the Holy Land in late antiquity. Oded Irshai, Journal of Roman Studies Taylor has written an important book. This study is a valuable and welcome contribution to our knowledge about the origin and evolution of the Christian holy places in Palestine. Besides that, Taylor has irrefutably proven that a Jewish-Christian origin of the holy places is a myth and a scholarly invention. Jan Willem Drijvers, Vigilae Christianae ...this is a substantial contribution to Holy Land studies and...the onus is now on anyone who wishes to disagree with the author's case. Stephen W. Need, Theology Taylor makes a generally compelling case, combining careful literary analysis with coherent summaries of the complex archaelogical data. John S. Kloppenberg, Toronto Journal of Theology Taylor examines the evidence and the interpretations offered site by site, with relentless rigour. Her conclusion...seems firmly established, and, to the present reviewer, incontrovertible...Her book is a model of historical enquiry , careful, thorough and judiciously critical, into problems where archaeological material has a crucial part to play in interpreting scraps of literary, often legendary, information. R. A. Markus
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