Contributor
James F. Strange, author of the captions in this booklet, is professor of religious studies at the University of South Florida. From 1981 to 1989 he served as dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the university.
Strange has directed the University of South Florida Excavations at Sepphoris, in Lower Galilee, since 1983. In 1982 he directed the university’s Archaeological Survey in Lower Galilee and was associate director of the Meiron Excavation Project, in Upper Galilee, from 1974 to 1981.
A popular lecturer in the Biblical Archaeology Society’s Travel/Study programs, Strange has lectured at BAS seminars at Oxford, Canterbury Center and Emory University. He co-authored two articles with Hershel Shanks in Biblical Archaeology Review, “Has the House Where Jesus Stayed in Capernaum Been Found?” BAR 8:06 and “Synagogue Where Jesus Preached Found in Capernaum” BAR 9:06. Strange is co-author, with Eric Meyers, of Archaeology, the Rabbis and Early Christianity (Abingdon Press, 1981).