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      A Roman-period, Byzantine, and Crusader site in central Nazareth

      The Sisters of Nazareth Convent

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      The Sisters of Nazareth Convent book

      A Roman-period, Byzantine, and Crusader site in central Nazareth
      ByKen Dark
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      eBook Published 17 September 2020
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003088240
      Pages 284
      eBook ISBN 9781003088240
      Subjects Humanities
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      Dark, K. (2020). The Sisters of Nazareth Convent: A Roman-period, Byzantine, and Crusader site in central Nazareth (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003088240

      ABSTRACT

      This book transforms archaeological knowledge of Nazareth by publishing over 80 years of archaeological work at the Sisters of Nazareth convent, including a detailed re-investigation in the early twenty-first century under the author's direction.

      Although one of the world's most famous places and of key importance to understanding early Christianity, Nazareth has attracted little archaeological attention. Following a chance discovery in the 1880s, the site was initially explored by the nuns of the convent themselves – one of the earliest examples of a major programme of excavations initiated and directed by women – and then for decades by Henri Senès, whose excavations (like those of the nuns) have remained almost entirely unpublished. Their work revealed a complex sequence, elucidated and dated by twenty-first century study, beginning with a partly rock-cut Early Roman-period domestic building, followed by Roman-period quarrying and burial, a well-preserved cave-church, and major surface-level Byzantine and Crusader churches. The interpretation and broader implications of each phase of activity are discussed in the context of recent studies of Roman-period, Byzantine, and later archaeology and contemporary archaeological theory, and their relationship to written accounts of Nazareth is also assessed.

      The Sisters of Nazareth Convent provides a crucial archaeological study for those wishing to understand the archaeology of Nazareth and its place in early Christianity and beyond.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |9 pages

      General introduction

      chapter 1|22 pages

      Archaeology without archaeologists

      Investigations by the Sisters of Nazareth, 1881–1913

      chapter 2|19 pages

      Architectural archaeology

      Systematic recording by Henri Senès, 1936–1964

      chapter 3|23 pages

      Bringing the site into the twenty-first century

      Archaeological work at the convent, 2006–2010

      chapter 4|32 pages

      An illusion of riches

      The Sisters of Nazareth convent museum

      chapter 5|22 pages

      Reinterpreting the Sisters of Nazareth site

      Roman-period transformations

      chapter 6|27 pages

      Making a place of pilgrimage

      The Sisters of Nazareth site in the Late Roman and Byzantine periods

      chapter 7|27 pages

      The pilgrims return

      Crusader and later structures

      chapter 8|17 pages

      Wider implications of the Sisters of Nazareth site for Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader archaeology and history

      chapter 9|10 pages

      Is this the house of Jesus?

      Memory, materiality, and the long-term transmission of topographical knowledge
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