Sean Freyne

Biographic Data

ID5525425
NAMESean Freyne
GIVEN NAMESSean
FAMILY NAMEFreyne
SIGNATUREFREYNE S
AFFILIATIONSTrinity College Dublin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX0

  • Jewish Immersion and Christian. Baptism Continuity on the Margins?

    Sean FreyneCHAPTERAblution, Initiation, and Baptism2011

  • Jesus of Galilee

    Sean FreyneARTICLEEarly Christianity2010

    Die Frage nach Jesus und Galiläa ist bereits seit über 150 Jahren Gegenstand einer lebhaften Debatte. Gleichwohl hat sie in letzter Zeit wieder an besonderer Bedeutung gewonnen, zum einen aufgrund intensiver archäologischer Untersuchungen über das Galiläa der römischen Zeit, zum anderen wegen des wiedererwachten Interesses am historischen Jesus. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht drei Aspekte, die in der Diskussion eine Rolle spielen: das kulturelle Ethos…

  • Dionysos and Herakles in Galilee

    Sean FreyneCHAPTERReligion and society in Roman…2010

  • The Restoration of Israel

    Sean FreyneARTICLEJournal for the Study of Judaism2009

  • Galilee as Laboratory

    Open AccessSean FreyneARTICLENew Testament Studies2007

    This paper discusses ways in which NT scholarship can engage meaningfully with contemporary studies in Greco-Roman culture, using recent archaeological exploration in Galilee as samples of such a strategy. Three examples are discussed, dealing respectively with aspects of Hellenisation, Judaisation and Romanisation of the region. These illustrate how specific finds can be brought into dialogue with the literary evidence, providing fresh readings.…

  • The Geography of Restoration

    Open AccessSean FreyneARTICLENew Testament Studies2001

    This paper discusses Galilee–Jerusalem relations in the context of the ‘geography of restoration’ as this is represented in various Jewish writings of the Second Temple period. The literary and archaeological records for the Jewish presence in Galilee in the Hasmonean and Herodian periods are examined against this ideology of a greater Israel. Finally, the alleged opposition in early Christianity between Galilee and Jerusalem is judged to be poor…

  • Galilee and Gospel

    Sean FreyneBOOKGalilee and Gospel2000

    This collection of essays brings together a number of studies of Galilee in Hellenistic and Roman times. Sean Freyne evaluates the important archaeological work in the Galilee and brings this evidence into a critical dialogue with the literary evidence. The emerging profile of the social and religious world of Galilee has proved highly influential in discussions about the historical Jesus, especially in relation to the matrix of Early Christianit…

  • Mirrors, Not Windows

    Hans G Kippenberg, David Noel Freedman et al.ARTICLENumen1994

  • Galilee

    Rafael Frankel, Sean FreyneCHAPTERThe Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary1992

    The northernmost region of the land of Israel. Culturally and historically it is characterized by its close proximity to the coastal cultures of Canaan-Phoenicia on the W and NW and to the inland Syrian-Aramaean cultures on the E and NE. The character and culture of Galilee and its neighbors changed

  • Galileans

    Sean FreyneCHAPTERThe Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary1992

    Discussion of the ethnic Strands among the inhabitants of Galilee in Hellenistic-Roman times has often centered on an understanding of Isa 8:23. In that oracle of salvation the three newly established provinces of the Assyrians in the north—the Way of the Sea, the Land of Zebulun and Naphtali, and G

  • Galilee, Sea of (Place)

    Sean FreyneCHAPTERThe Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary1992

    The large expanse of water in the Jordan Valley rift which separates Galilee from the Gaulan and Decapolis regions. There is no consistency in the name that is given to it. Terminology In the OT, this lake was called “the sea of Chinnereth” (Heb yām kinneret, cf. Heb kinôr, “lyre[-shaped]”), and it

  • Galilee-Jerusalem Relations According to Josephus' Life

    Open AccessSean FreyneARTICLENew Testament Studies1987

    Josephus' Life raises many important literary and historical questions that are not easily resolved. This may explain why, for the most part, it has been ignored by New Testament scholars, despite the fact that it is the only extant writing from the first century that bears directly on Galilean life and culture and was written by somebody with immediate experience of that location. Its tendentious character has been ably exposed by Shaye Cohen's …

  • The Galileans in the light of Josephus' Vita

    Open AccessSean FreyneARTICLENew Testament Studies1980

    ‘With this limited area, and although surrounded by such powerful foreign nations, the two Galilees have always resisted any hostile invasion, for the inhabitants are from infancy inured to war, and have at all times been numerous; never did the men lack courage or the country men’ ( War 3:41 f.). It is surprising how this general characterization of the Galileans by Josephus has so often found its way into modern writings about Galilee without a…