Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Life, culture, and society. Galilee and the historical Jesus in recent research / Roland Deines -- The political history in Galilee from the first century BCE to the end of the second century CE / Morten Hørning Jensen -- Religious practices and religious movements in Galilee: 100 BCE-200 CE / Roland Deines -- The ethnicities of Galileans / Mark A. Chancey -- The synagogues of Galilee / Lee I. Levine -- Notable Galilean persons / Thomas Scott Caulley -- Social movements in Galilee / Richard Horsley -- The Galilean village in the late Second Temple and Mishnaic periods / David A. Fiensy -- Household Judaism / Andrea M. Berlin -- The Galilean house in the late Second Temple and Mishnaic periods / David A. Fiensy -- Mortality, morbidity, and economics in Jesus' Galilee / Jonathan L. Reed -- Education/literacy in Jewish Galilee: was there any and at what level? / John C. Poirier -- The Galilean road system / James F. Strange -- Urbanization and industry in Mishnaic Galilee / Ze'ev Safrai -- Never the two shall meet?: urban-rural interaction in lower Galilee / Agnes Choi -- Inner village life in Galilee: a diverse and complex phenomenon / Sharon Lea Matilla -- Debate: was the Galilean economy oppressive or prosperous? Late Second Temple Galilee: socio-archaeology and dimensions of exploitation in first-century Palestine / Douglas E. Oakman -- Late Second Temple Galilee: a picture of relative economic health / J. Andrew Overman -- Taxation and other sources of government income in the Galilee of Herod and Antipas / Fabian Udoh.

v. 2. The archaeological record from cities, towns, and villages. The transformation from Galil Ha-Goyim to Jewish Galilee: the archaeological testimony of an ethnic change / Mordechai Aviam -- Sepphoris. The jewel of the Galilee / James F. Strange -- Residential area of the western summit / Eric M. Meyers, Carol L. Meyers, and Benjamin D. Gordon -- From Galilean town to Roman city, 100 BCE-200 CE / Zeev Weiss -- The Sepphoris aqueducts / James F. Strange -- Kefar Shikhin / James Riley Strange -- Yodefat-Jotapata: a Jewish Galilean town at the end of the Second Temple period / Mordechai Aviam -- Khirbet Qana / C. Thomas McCollough -- Karm er-Ras near Kafr Kanna / Yardenna Alexandre -- Kafr Kanna (the Franciscan church) / F. Massimo Luca, OFM -- Nazareth / James F. Strange -- Kefar Ḥananya / David Adan-Bayewitz -- Tiberias, from its foundation to the end of the early Islamic period / Katia Cytryn-Silverman -- Hamath Tiberias / Carl E. Savage -- Capernaum, village of Naḥum, from Hellenistic to Byzantine times / Sharon Lea Mattila -- Bethsaida / Rami Arav and Carl E. Savage -- Magdala/Taricgheae / Stefano De Luca and Anna Lena -- Khirbet Wadi Ḥamam in the early and middle Roman periods / Uzi Leibner -- Ḥuqoq in the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods / Matthew J. Grey and Chad S. Spigel -- Meiron in Upper Galilee / Eric M. Meyers and Carol L. Meyers -- Gush Ḥalav / James F. Strange -- Nabratein: synagogue and environs / Eric M. Meyers and Carol L. Meyers -- The ancient synagogue and village at Khirbet Shemaʻ / Eric M. Meyers -- Kedesh of the Upper Galilee / Andrea M. Berlin and Sharon C. Herbert.