If properly analyzed within its cultural and historical context, glass finds can clarify or suppo... more If properly analyzed within its cultural and historical context, glass finds can clarify or support anthropological assumptions about the people group who owned them. Jerusalem’s glass corpus speaks to the careful learner about the religious beliefs and practices as seen among the living and the dead, and the daily social and practical activities of the people. It reveals the connectedness of Jerusalem to the rest of the Roman Empire and demonstrates the business activities by which glass passed from the hands of craftsmen to the local consumer. Glass pinpoints where people were located in the city, what their personal tastes were, and what common items they shared with people who were not like them. And finally, it presents the various economic levels of the residents of Jerusalem, and in comparison with other contemporary cities at that time, the glass of the elite illuminates Jerusalem as one of the wealthiest Syro-Palestinian cities of the Second Temple period, just prior to its destruction in 70 C.E.
If properly analyzed within its cultural and historical context, glass finds can clarify or suppo... more If properly analyzed within its cultural and historical context, glass finds can clarify or support anthropological assumptions about the people group who owned them. Jerusalem’s glass corpus speaks to the careful learner about the religious beliefs and practices as seen among the living and the dead, and the daily social and practical activities of the people. It reveals the connectedness of Jerusalem to the rest of the Roman Empire and demonstrates the business activities by which glass passed from the hands of craftsmen to the local consumer. Glass pinpoints where people were located in the city, what their personal tastes were, and what common items they shared with people who were not like them. And finally, it presents the various economic levels of the residents of Jerusalem, and in comparison with other contemporary cities at that time, the glass of the elite illuminates Jerusalem as one of the wealthiest Syro-Palestinian cities of the Second Temple period, just prior to its destruction in 70 C.E.
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pinpoints where people were located in the city, what their personal tastes were, and what common items they shared with people who were not like them. And finally, it presents the various economic levels of the residents of Jerusalem, and in comparison with other contemporary cities at that time, the glass of the elite illuminates Jerusalem as one of the wealthiest Syro-Palestinian cities of the Second Temple period, just prior to its destruction in 70 C.E.
pinpoints where people were located in the city, what their personal tastes were, and what common items they shared with people who were not like them. And finally, it presents the various economic levels of the residents of Jerusalem, and in comparison with other contemporary cities at that time, the glass of the elite illuminates Jerusalem as one of the wealthiest Syro-Palestinian cities of the Second Temple period, just prior to its destruction in 70 C.E.