"Land of Galilee 1, the first annual publication of the Institute for Galilean Archaeology, is a collection of articles by Mordechai Aviam. Those translated from Hebrew or previously published in English have been updated and revised for this publication. This book discusses the remains from the pagan, Hellenistic Galilee prior to the Hasmonaean conquest, the pagan Roman remains, Jewish towns and villages, synagogues, miqvaot, tombs, Christian villages, churches, monasteries as well as agricultural installations. Its main goal is to shed additional light, through a combination of both modern and old archaeological data, on Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Galilee, and to improve our understanding of the history and ethnicity of this region in antiquity." "The book contains 21 chapters comprising 300 pages, 250 figures and 10 maps, an index of more than 500 entries of ancient Galilean sites and over 200 bibliographic items on Galilean archaeology and history, all updated through 2004."--BOOK JACKET.