ABSTRACT
In Jewish, Christian, and Islamic discourses, the neighbor has multiple faces, and what they are portrayed as doing can bring both life and death. Over the last 15 years, several anthologies have been published in which a given topic is explored concerning Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, for example, on the characters of Sarah and Hagar, on children and parents, on slavery or on sexual violence in the three traditions. Recognizing the limitations of the archaeological record, several contemporaneous and geographically proximate literary sources are mobilized that provide further hermeneutical insight into the entangled relationship between Capernaum's monumental and domestic landscapes and that allow the reader to generate a more robust historical imagination of Jewish Christian interaction in the town. The priorities of the neighbor can make a difference, in both life and death.
