This volume seeks to explore pilgrimage studies as a distinctive sub-field of research, and to define its key methodological approaches and problems. Pilgrimage
The long-held view that the Persian period in Israel (known as Yehud) was a historically derivative era that engendered little theological or literary innovatio
This volume sheds new light on the significance and meaning of material culture for the study of pilgrimage in the ancient world, focusing in particular on Clas