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Index

Affula, 12

afterlife, 22

Ai, 14

Akkad, 14, 16

alabaster, 24, 43

Albright, 27

Alt, 27, 31

Amarna letters, 36, 37

Amarna period, 27

Amorites, 16, 18, 53

Amos, 30

Anatolia, 12

Arad, 15

Ark of the Covenant, 29

Armageddon
, 4, 24

Armenia, 12

Assyria, 30, 31, 32, 35, 38

Bagatti, 13, 16–17, 19–20, 22–23, 30, 33, 35, 37

Barak, 29

beit ’av
, 23

Beth Shean, 15

Beth Yerah, 12, 15

Beth-shan, 12

bone-inlaid boxes, 24

Byblos, 14

Canaanites, 24, 28, 29

Cave of the Leap, 6, 8, 9

caves, 7, 11, 13, 15, 21, 23

cemetery, 15

Chalcolithic, 10, 11

Church of St. Gabriel, 19

Church of St. Joseph, 32, 33

Church of the Annunciation, 4, 8, 19–20, 22–23, 29, 32–33, 37

cire perdue
, 11

cisterns, 13

copper, 10–11

Cro-Magnon man, 8

David, King 29–30, 53

dislocation, 16, 20, 24

dromos, 21

Eben-Ezer, 29

Ebla, 14

Egypt, 4, 14, 16, 24, 26, 37, 43

Ephraim, 29, 30

Franciscans, 4, 22

Gaza, 26

Gezer, 15

grape, 11

Great Hiatus, 19

Habiru, 27

habitation, 2, 7, 9, 15, 19, 25, 30, 35, 37

habitations, 19–20

Hazor, 27, 32

Hyksos, 24

ice age, 8

Intermediate Period, 15, 16, 18, 23, 25

Iron Age, iii, iv, 7, 17, 19–21

Israel, 8, 12, 14–15, 20, 30

Israel Department of Antiquities, 20

Israelites, 16, 26–30, 35

Japhia, iii, vi, 4, 27, 36–37

Jebel Nebi Sa‘in.
See
Nebi Sa’in

Jebel Qafza, 6, 8

Jericho, 10, 14–15, 22

Jerusalem, 6, 10, 30–31, 34

Jezreel Valley, 2, 4, 6, 8, 11–12, 23–24

Joseph, 4, 24

Josephus, vi, vii, 36, 38

Judah, 30

Judges, 27

Kfar Monash, 12

kilns, 13, 23

Levallois, 6

Loffreda, 20, 29, 34–35

Lower Galilee, 2, 5, 27–28, 31–32, 35

Mary’s Spring, 2, 4

Mary’s Well, 5

Mashhad, 36

MB IIA, 22–23

Mediterranean diet, 11

Megiddo, iii, iv, 2, 4, 12–13, 15–16, 21–24, 26, 28, 30, 47–49

Battle of, 24

Mentuhotep, 16

Merneptah, 27

Mesopotamia, 4, 16

Mezer, 15

mishpacha
, 23

Mitanni, 24

Mount Gilboa, Battle of, 29

Mousterian, 6, 8

Mt. Tabor, 29

Nahal Mishmar, 11

Naram-Sin, 14

Nazareth Range, iv, 2, 4–5

Nazareth Ridge, 2

Neanderthal, 6, 8

Nebi Sa‘in, 2

nomadism, 15

oil lamps, 22

olive, 11, 30

oven, 19, 23

Philistines, 26, 29, 54

potter’s wheel, 12

pottery, 9–13, 18–23

earliest, 16

use of wheel, 15

Qafza Cave, 8

renaissance of settlement, 23

Ridge Route, 2

Russia, 12

Samaria, 30, 31

Sargon, 14

Saul, 29

scarab, 24, 33

Sea Peoples, 26

Sepphoris, 2

shaft tomb, iv, 21–23, 33

Shechem, 27

Shiloh, 29

Shishak (Pharoah), 30

silos, 11, 19, 30, 32–33, 35

Sinai, 12

Solomon, 30

St. Gabriel.
See
Church of St. Gabriel

Sumer, 16

Syria, 4, 12, 14, 24

Taanach, 12

Tell Ajjul, 15

Tell el-Farah North, 15

temple, 13

Thutmose I, 24

Tiglath-pileser, 31

Tomb 1: 19, 20, 22–23, 25, 32, 40, 43

Tomb 75: 34

Tomb 8: 22

Tomb 81: 20, 22, 43

Trajan, 36

Trunk Road, 2

Tyre, 27

Ugarit, 14

Upper Galilee, 27

Upper Nazareth, 20–21

Urbanization

demise of, 14

venerated sites, 4

Via Maris, 2, 4

vine, 11, 30

Vitto, 20, 29, 32–33, 35, 37, 44–46

Wadi ‘Ara, 4

Weni, 14

Yokneam, 12

Zebulun, 5, 28–29, 35

Zechariah, 30

GENERAL  INDEX

A

Abbot Daniel:
—254–5

Abraham:
Nazareth inhabited uninterruptedly since time of?  —83

Acco:
  —100

Achaemenids:
  —62,
63,  98

Acheulian technology:
Nazareth in relation to —24

Acts of the Apostles:
Paul called “ringleader of the sect of the Nazoreans” in —xii

Aelia Capitolina:
— 77; at Jerusalem —268

Africanus:
See
 Julius Africanus

Afterlife:
— 39

Afula:
—29; University of Haifa survey in relation to —28;
lamps of  —116

Agricultural installations:
secret hideaways in relation to —270

Agriculture:
Bagatti’s discussion of Holy Family involvement in  —81; silos not domestic but used for  —66

Agrippa I:
   —155

Agrippa II:
   —155,
163

Ai:
destruction of —31

Ailut:
  —63

‘Ain ed-Jedide (New Spring):
See also
‘En ed-Jedide; Gustav Dalman proposes as center of Jesus’ settlement —222

‘
Ain Maryam (Mary’s Spring):
location of —21

Akkadians:
cities destroyed by —31

Alabaster:
—41, 63

Albright
,
W. F.:
—44

Alexander Janneus:
  —103,
142; Galilee settlement under  103

Alexander the Great:
  —97,
98,
99; death at Babylon  —99