62 MORTEN HØRNING JENSEN This is actually what was claimed in an article on family life in Galilee by S. Guijarro 61. According to Guijarro, 70-75% of the population were peasants or craftsmen living in single-room mud- brick houses, and he uses this as an argument for his view of a period of economic stress in Galilee. Guijarro derives these numbers from the models of the sociologists Sjoberg and Lenski, and the idea of mud- brick houses from an article by T. Canaan, which, in fact, describes Arab housing in the twentieth century 62. Guijarro’s picture is far too simplistic. At this time, we do not have sufficient material evidence to propose such solid numbers. In contrast, to my knowledge, every excavation in Galilee presents a diversified picture with respect to living quarters, as demonstrated by, for example, Y. Hirschfeld, P. Richardson and E. Meyers 63. I take this as another indication of socio-economic stability, whereas a poor, simple, unified mass of housing would point in the direction of decline and debt. 7. Monetization The issue of monetization has also been raised in the debate surrounding the socio-economic conditions, and some have claimed that Antipas initiated a rigid policy of minting in order to monetize the economy more profoundly so that taxes could be collected in coin rather than in kind 64. However, important new data have recently been collected by the Israeli archaeologist Danny Syon, who in his dissertation, dated 2004, has traced coin circulation in Galilee and the Golan throughout the 61 S. GUIJARRO, “The Family in First-Century Galilee”, Constructing Early Christian Families (ed. H. MOXNES) (London 1997) 42-65. 62 T. CANAAN, “The Palestinian Arab House: Its Architecture and Folk- lore”, The Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society 13 (1933) 1-83. 63 Cf. Y. HIRSCHFELD, The Palestinian Dwelling in the Roman-Byzantine Pe- riod (Studium Biblicum Franciscanum 34; Jerusalem 1995); P. RICHARDSON, “Towards a Typology of Levantine/Palestinian Houses”, JSNT 27 (2004) 47-68; E.M. MEYERS, “Roman-Period Houses From the Galilee: Domestic Architec- ture and Gendered Spaces”, Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past (eds. W.G. DEVER – S. GITIN) (Winona Lake, MI 2003) 193-220. 64 Cf. e. g. W.E. ARNAL, Jesus and the Village Scribes. Galilean Conflicts and the Setting of Q (Minneapolis, MN 2000) 138.