Geographical factors were of some weight. There were considerable differences between the pressures upon, and consequent cultural, social and religious needs and viewpoints of, Jews in the Jerusalem area on the one hand and Jews in Galilee on the other.1 The former could focus attention most naturally on the Temple, on the problems of pagan overlordship and the threat to the sanctity of the capital, and on the maintenance of cult, liturgy and festival as symbols of a de jure national independence in the face of de facto sub-servience. The latter, Galilee, was three day’s journey away from
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