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Article: Marking Religious and Ethnic Boundaries: Cases from the Ancient Golan Heights.
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- Church History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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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 common era.(1) The area of the Golan heights, roughly the size of Rhode Island, was in antiquity a place of agriculture and, for the most part, small communities. Though historians of religions in ...