Full Description
Since the early 4th century, Christian pilgrims and visitors to Judea and Galilee have worshipped at and been inspired by monumental churches erected at sites traditionally connected with the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. This book examines the history and archaeology of early Christian holy sites and traditions connected with specific places in order to understand them as interpretations of Jesus and to explore them as instantiations of memories of him.
Ryan's overarching aim is to construe these places as instantiations of what historian Pierre Nora has called "lieux de mémoires," sites where memory crystallizes and, where possible, to track the course and development of the traditions underlying them from their genesis in the Gospel narratives to their eventual solidification in the form of pilgrimage sites. So doing will bring rarely considered evidence to the study of early Christian memory, which in turn helps to illuminate the person of Jesus himself in both history and reception.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Translations Commonly Used
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Remembering Golgotha: Memory and Interpretation of the Place of Crucifixion from the First to the Fourth Centuries
3. The Tomb of Jesus in Christian Memory and Interpretation
4. Locating a Memory: The Architecture of the Constantinian Church of the Holy Sepulchre as Jesus-Memory
5. Bethlehem and the Mount of Olives
6. Galilee: "Th ere Th ey Will See Me"
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
