Marking Religious and Ethnic Boundaries: Cases from the Ancient Golan Heights.

From: Church History | Date: September 1, 2000| Author: GREGG, ROBERT C. | Copyright information

In the aftermath of the 1967 "Six Days' War," 254 ancient inscribed stones were found in forty-four towns and villages of the Golan Heights--241 in Greek, 12 in Hebrew or Aramaic, and 1 in Latin. These stones, along with numerous

architectural fragments, served as the basis of the 1996 book by myself and Dan Urman, Jews, Pagans, and Christians in the Golan Heights--a study of settlement patterns of people of the three religions in this region in the early centuries of the ...

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