Further Reading

Omrit:

Nelson, M. and J. Thole. 2010. “Stucco Fluting the Columns of the Roman Temple at Omrit, Israel,” JRS 22, 349-354.
Overman, J.A. 2009.  ”Between Rome and Parthia: Galilee and the Implications of Empire,” in Z. Rodgers, M. Daly Denton and A. Fitzpatrick McKinley (eds.), A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honor of Sean Freyne, 279-299.
Overman, J.A., J. Olive and M.Nelson. 2003. “Discovering Herod’s Shrine to Augustus,”  BAR 29/2, 40-49 and 67-68.
Overman, J.A., J. Olive and M. Nelson. 2007. “A Newly Discovered Herodian Temple at Khirbet Omrit in Northern Israel,” in N. Kokkinos (ed.), The World of the Herods, 177-196.
Overman, J.A. and D. Schowalter eds. 2011. The Roman Temple Complex at Horvat Omrit: An Interim Report. BAR International Series 2205. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Herod the Great:

Kokkinos, N. ed. 2009. Herod and Augustus: Papers Presented at the IJS Conference, 2005. IJS Studies in Judaica  6.
Netzer, E. Y. Kalman, R. Porath and R. Chachy-Laurey. 2010. “Preliminary Report on Herod’s Mausoleum and Theatre with a Royal Box at Herodium,” JRS 22, 84-108.
Netzer, E. 2008. The Architecture of Herod, The Great Builder. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
Richardson, P. 1996. Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans. Columbia, S.C.: U. of Sourth Carolina.
Roller, D. 1998. The Building Program of Herod the Great. Berkeley: U. of California Press.
Sullivan, D. 1990. Near Eastern Royalty and Rome, 100-30 BCE. Toronto: U. of Toronto.

Iturea and the Northern Galilee:

Dar, S. 1993. Settlements and Cult Sites on Mount Hermon, Israel: Iturean Culture in the Hellensitic and Roman Periods. BAR International Series 589. London: Archaeopress.
Freyne, S. 2001. “Galileans, Phoenicians and Itureans: A Study of Regional Contrasts in the Hellenistic Age,” in J.J. Collins and G. Sterling (eds.), Hellenism in the Land of Israel, 184-217.
Hartal, M. 2005. The Land of the Itureans. Qatzrin: Golan Studies.
Herbert, S. 1994. Tel Anafa I.i: Final Report on Ten Years of Excavation at a Hellenistic and Roman Settlement in Northern Israel. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
Myers, E.A. 2010. The Itureans and the Roman Near East: Reassessing the Sources. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.
Wilson, J. 2004. Caesarea Phillipi: Banias the Lost City of Pan. London: I.B. Taurus.

The Roman Near East:

Ball, W. 2000. Rome and the East: The Transformation of an Empire. London: Routledge.
Butcher, K. 2003. Roman Syria and the Near East. Los Angeles: Getty Publications.
Sartre, M. 2005. The Middle East Under Rome. Cambridge: Harvard.
Segal, A. 1997. From Function to Monument: Urban Landscapes of Roman Palestine, Syria and Provincia Arabia. Oxford: Oxbow.

The Byzantine Near East:

Bar, D. 2004. Population, settlement, and economy in Late Roman and Byzantine Palestine (70-641 AD). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 67, No.3
Cameron, A Conrad, L. King, G. and Haldon, J.1992. The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East. Princeton: Darwin Press
Humphrey, J. 1995.The Roman and Byzantine Near East: some recent archaeological research. Ann Arbor: Journal of Roman Archaeology.

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