Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Figures and Tables xi
Abbreviations xiii
1 Introduction and Status Quaestionis 1
Part I Early Synagogues
2 Defining "Synagogue": Synagogue Origins and Development in Recent Research 23
3 The Public Synagogue as Jesus Knew It: Functions, People, and Architecture 37
Gallery: Synagogue Archaeology and Architecture 79
Excursus: Early Post-Second-Temple-Period Synagogues 89
4 How "the Synagogue" Has Impacted the Study of Jesus in Previous Research: An Evaluation 95
Part II The Historical Jesus and the Synagogue
5 Kingdom and Synagogue: The Synagogue and Jesus's Program 125
6 The Incident in the Synagogue at Nazareth (Luke 4:16-30; Mark 6:2-6; Matt 13:54-58) 171
7 Healings and Exorcisms in Synagogue Settings (Matt 12:9-14; Mark 3:1-6; Luke 6:6-11 / Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37) 207
8 "I am the Bread of Life": The Teaching in the Synagogue at Capernaum (John 6:25-71) 243
9 To Jerusalem: The Aposynagogos Passages and the Relationship between the Temple and Synagogue 265
Conclusion 277
Appendix A Outlining the Practice of History: A Historiographical Approach to Jesus 281
Appendix B Approaching the Sources: Hermeneutics, Truth, and Knowledge in the Practice of History 309
Appendix C Additional Notes on Secondary Rooms in Synagogue Buildings 329
Works Cited 333
Index of Names 375
Index of Texts 383