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GtrsRGr8 · 01-17-2017, 12:39 AM

Okay, I'm going to go on memory here, because it's late in the evening and I want to hit the sack. So there may be some slight errors . . . .

Back probably about 9 months ago I mentioned that the State of North Carolina and/or the North Carolina Museum of Art would digitize any(?) books that they had published (they all were dead-tree versions to begin with, I think). You had to make a request, and then wait a while for them to get around to it (my words).

As it turns out the North Carolina Museum has had numerous art shows and things like that over the years. One of them was called Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture. The eponymous book is not only about excavations at the town, which it seems that NCMA was some kind of sponsor, but also gives a wealth of information about the town gleaned from other sources, too. I think that there was some kind of exhibition involved, too, and a number of artifacts were displayed. Perhaps, in fact, this book can best be described as an exhibition catalog. I requested that the State of North Carolina and/or NCMA digitize this book.

I just found out that the North Carolina State Library and/or NCMA have fulfilled my request, and have posted the book on the Internet Archive, free for anyone in the world, I suppose, to download, to read, or to thumb through.

Many Christians should be interested in this book, because Sepphoris was very close to Nazareth, the tiny home town of Jesus. It is not unreasonable to think, although it is not stated in any of the Gospels, that Jesus visited Sepphoris many times as a pre-adult (Sepphoris was much larger than Nazareth at the time; ironically Sepphoris no longer exists, but Nazareth is a fairly big town now), and he may have visited there during the part of his ministry called the "Galilean Ministry." Too, things uncovered in the excavation can shed much light just on what life was like in Galilee in the days of Jesus.

The NCMA has done a first-rate job digitizing this 262-page book, providing a wealth of download options for it, sharing bibliographic information about it, and things like that.

The Internet Archive is the only place that I know of where you can get this book in digital form. Amazon, for example, sells it, but only in the dead-tree form (paperback). BTW--the least expensive copy (Paperback--Used, Very Good) at Amazon is nearly $15 with shipping.

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Okay, I'm going to go on memory here, because it's late in the evening and I want to hit the sack. So there may be some slight errors . . . . Back probably about 9 months ago I mentioned that the State of North Carolina and/or the North Carolina Museum of Art would digitize any(?) books that they had published (they all were dead-tree versions to begin with, I think). You had to make a request, and then wait a while for them to get around to it (my words). As it turns out the North Carolina Museum has had numerous art shows and things like that over the years. One of them was called Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture. The eponymous book is not only about excavations at the town, which it seems that NCMA was some kind of sponsor, but also gives a wealth of information about the town gleaned from other sources, too. I think that there was some kind of exhibition involved, too, and a number of artifacts were displayed. Perhaps, in fact, this book can best be described as an exhibition catalog. I requested that the State of North Carolina and/or NCMA digitize this book. I just found out that the North Carolina State Library and/or NCMA have fulfilled my request, and have posted the book on the Internet Archive, free for anyone in the world, I suppose, to download, to read, or to thumb through. Many Christians should be interested in this book, because Sepphoris was very close to Nazareth, the tiny home town of Jesus. It is not unreasonable to think, although it is not stated in any of the Gospels, that Jesus visited Sepphoris many times as a pre-adult (Sepphoris was much larger than Nazareth at the time; ironically Sepphoris no longer exists, but Nazareth is a fairly big town now), and he may have visited there during the part of his ministry called the "Galilean Ministry." Too, things uncovered in the excavation can shed much light just on what life was like in Galilee in the days of Jesus. The NCMA has done a first-rate job digitizing this 262-page book, providing a wealth of download options for it, sharing bibliographic information about it, and things like that. The Internet Archive is the only place that I know of where you can get this book in digital form. Amazon, for example, sells it, but only in the dead-tree form (paperback). BTW--the least expensive copy (Paperback--Used, Very Good) at Amazon is nearly $15 with shipping. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 01-17-2017 at 01:50 AM.