Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Prologue: From Constantine to Abd al Malik
2: The Periphery of Dreams and Deserts
3: Recalcitrance, Riots and Rebellion: The Samaritans and the Emergence of Intolerance
4: Contesting the Sacred: Forms of Ritualized Violence
5: Jerusalem: The Contrasting Eyes of Beholders
6: Contesting Scripture and Soil: Liturgical Dates and Seasonal Dieting
7: Flesh and Blood? Women in Palestinian Societies
8: Urban Stories: Caesarea, Sepphoris, Gaza
9: Epilogue

About the Author

Hagith Sivan is Associate Professor at the University of Kansas.

Reviews

highly readable and attractive book
*Sivan, The Classical Review*

a most useful, stimulating and comprehensive picture of a dramatic period in a country of central ideological importance to this day... author is to be congratulated
*Jan Retsö, JRAS*

Sivan is to be particularly commended for having adopted, throughout this book, a resolutely panoramic vision. She makes us look at everything and everybody.
*Peter Brown, New York Review of Books*