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Qafza Cave:
excavations at —25
Qafza, Jebel:
hominid skulls discovered at —23
Quarries:
 —185
Queen Helen of Adiabene:
tomb of, rolling stone of —186
Qumran:
—306
 

R

Rabbi Judah the Prince:
at Sepphoris —148
Rabbinic studies:
at Jamnia —266
Rabbis:
receive temple contributions —266
Rahmani:
ossuaries in relation to —187
Raisins
:
Finegan’s mistranslation of French word —88
Redactor:
of Matthew,
Nazorean
as invention of —303
Reed, Jonathan:
—141,  190,
196,
198,
199,
200,
207; misdating of stone vessels by —199
Reina:
 —184,
200
Revue Biblique
(journal):
Bagatti’s omission of ‘Hellenistic age’ in communication to —123
Richmond, Ernest Tatham:
—105, 179,
180,
184,
201,
202; Bagatti’s false attribution of term ‘Herodian’ to him —180
Richmond Report, The
: —
105
Richmond Tomb:
—109;
See also
 
Tomb 72; oil lamps from —130
Ridge Route:
through Galilee —19
Ring of tombs:
—220,
221,
225,
228
Ritrovamenti nella Nazaret Evangelica
:
of Bagatti —74; quotation from —175
Robinson, E.:

—203
Rolling stones:
 —143,  160,
186,
187,
197; discussion of —186; of some Nazareth tombs —187
Roman-Byzantine Period:
Nazareth movable finds of —271
Roman Catholic Church:
traditions of —211
Roman Period:
Bagatti’s dating to —112; cooking pots of —123; Bagatti’s vague use of term —176; burial customs in Palestine —158; Nazareth basin tombs dating to —164
Roman Period, Middle:
Great Hiatus lasting from Late Iron Age until —36; Richmond lamps dated to —106
Romans:
take Jerusalem —266
Rosenthal, Renate:
—106, 167,
169,
171,
172,
177,
181,
185,
186;
Ancient Lamps in the Schloessinger Collection
of —106, 271; on chronology of Herodian lamps —171;
Rosenthal
and
Sivan:
independent datings of Nazareth lamps and pottery by —325
Russia
—29
 

S

Sadducees:
—154,  267
Saknin Valley:
—19
Samaria:
—47–49, 100, 266; given to Herod’s son Archelaus —155; given to Herod’s son Philip —155; foreigners settle in —  47
Samaritans:
—63, 99
Samaritan Temple:
—59
Sanballats:
—63
Sanhedrin:
—266; at
Sepphoris
—148
Sarcophagi:
 —188; discussion of —188
Sargon, King:
destruction caused by —31
Sargon
II:
—59,
61
Saul:
—46
Scarabs:
—41,
51
Scavo Presso la Chiesa di S. Giuseppe a Nazaret
:
of Bagatti —121
Schiffman
,
Lawrence:
on Jewish temple at
Elephantine
—63; on Hasmoneans —103
School:
of Franciscan Monastery —229
Schumacher:
alludes to coins under Dames de Nazareth convent —196
Schürer:
 —155
Scribes:
in New Testament —267
Scripture:
instead of evidence as guide for Christian archaeologists  —205
Scripture,
Jewish:
Nazareth unknown to —x; Nazareth not mentioned in —64
Scythopolis:
—100; Count Joseph and Epiphanius at —278
Sea Peoples:
—43
Seals:
—63,
83
Second Jewish Revolt: —
184, 199; cause of —268; underground complexes dated to —270;  stone vessel production in relation to —199
Secondary literature
: on Nazareth, dependency on defective primary literature —xiv; representative passeges from —196; characteristic passage from Lee Strobel —286
Seleucid Period:
in Palestine —98
Seleucids:
and the Maccabean revolt —101
Sepphoris:
—19,
137, 154–156,
161,
185,
188,
189,
200, 266; discussion of archaeology and history of —148; Hellenistic renaissance myth in relation to —136,
148; refounding of —104; Judas the Galilean raids armory of —154; kokhim of III CE at —161; torched by Varus —154; Jebel Nebi Sa‘in in relation to —19
Sepulchers:
Viaud on —244
Settlement:
in Nazareth basin —xiii; disruption of Canaanite —41; map showing location of in Nazareth basin —24; of Ephraim during Iron Age I, by Israelites —46; Alt on patterns of in Galilee —136; of
Nazareth, beginning in late I CE —270
Shaft tomb:
—38,
39,
50
Shaliach:
priestly envoy of Sanhedrin —280
Shalmaneser V:
—59,
61
Shards:
alleged
Hellenistic
—104; Bagatti misdating of from Ch. of  St. Joseph —125; Bagatti’s evidence —121; Bagatti’s “greatly mutilated” —122;  Joan Taylor dating of  —128; of oil lamps —113, 167
Shechem:
— 44, 83, 115, 266; dispute with Megiddo —44; nozzles from —115
Shelf grave:
description —270
Shezor Ridge:
—19
Shiloh:
—46
Shimron:
—118; lamp found at —118
Shishak (Pharoah):
invades Palestine —47
Shrine of the Annunciation:
See
 
Church of the Annunciation
Sicarii:
See also
  Zealots; as founded by Judas the Galilean —154
Silence:
arguments from, discussion of —288
Silet edh-Dhahr:
—111
Silo 22:
—80,
87
Silo 24:
shard of oil lamp found in —113
Silo 30:
— 237
Silo 30a:
— 237
Silo 32:
—237
Silo 36:
stone vase of —182
Silo 48:
description of —235
Silo 57:
—80,
87
Silos:
—28,
36,
47,
49,
50,
52, 66,
78,
81,
82,
87,
88,
90,
91,
92, 104,
130,  180,
195,
196,
197, 221,
232,
233,
235,
236,
237,
256; cisterns in relation to —50; for grain storage —28; Iron-Age material found in —47; No. 22 —49; No. 57 —49; under CA —49; discussion of —80; for agricultural not domestic use —66; in venerated area —81; at Nazareth —130; Iron Age —130
Simon bar-Kosiba (bar-Cochba):
not acknowledged as true messiah —268
Sin
(moon god):
—62
Sinai:
—29
Sisters of Nazareth
:
See also
 Dames de Nazareth; —257,
259,
260; tombs at convent of —164
Sivan, Renée:
—167,
169,
171,
172,
177,
181,
185,
186;
Ancient Lamps in the Schloessinger Collection
of —106
Skulls:
discovered at Jebel Qafza —23
Smith, R.:
 —157,
161,
167–169,
171,
172,
181,
186; dating of bow-spouted lamp —168; on end of kokh tomb use —161;
terminus ante quem
for bow-spouted lamp in relation to —169
So‘em inscription:
  —190
Solomon:
—47
Southern tradition:
—215;
History of Joseph the Carpenter
as part of —296

Spin

:
—91
Stern
,
Ephraim:
on Palestine as battleground during 4th century BCE  —63
St. Gabriel, Church of:

214,
215,
216;
excavation focus in relation to —36; location of Greek Orthodox —21; waterworks at —133; Church of the Nutrition —214

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