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Ancient synagogues revealed, 1981-2022 / edited by Lee I. Levine, Zeev Weiss, and Uzi Leibner.
Van Pelt - Zilberman Family Center for Global Collections NA5977 .A652 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Synagogue architecture--Palestine.
- Synagogue architecture.
- Synagogues--Palestine.
- Synagogues.
- Palestine--Antiquities.
- Palestine.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Palestine.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Jewish art.
- Middle East--Palestine.
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 300 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jerusalem : Israel Exploration Society : The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem : Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center of Jewish History, 2023.
- Summary:
- "This companion volume to Ancient Synagogues Revealed, published in 1981, apprises the reader of the latest archaeological and historical data culled from the excavations of ancient synagogues since that date. The articles, written by the excavators of these sites, reveal a plethora of synagogue buildings, artistic remains, inscriptions, and small finds that shed light on many aspects of this ancient institution and increase the number and range of scholarly interpretations and theories regarding the synagogue in the first millennium of its existence. Diverse aspects of the ancient synagogue--archaeology, history, art, epigraphy, language, and literature--allow for new and creative interpretations of these intriguing archaeological finds." -- Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The Revolutionary impact of archaeological remains on the study of Jewish society in late antiquity / Lee I. Levine
- Ancient synagogue art : new finds, new paradigms / Zeev Weiss
- Dating ancient synagogues / Uzi Leibner
- Synagogues in the Galilee, the Carmel, and the valleys. The ancient synagogues at Bar'am / Mordechai Aviam ; Appendix : Reconstruction of the façade of the large synagogue at Bar'am / Iosi Bordowicz
- The synagogue and bet midrash of ancient Merot / Emanuel Damati
- The Nabratein synagogue / Eric M. Meyers, Carol Meyers
- The Meiron synagogue / Eric M. Meyers, Carol Meyers
- The synagogue at Korazim : new insights and a reassessment / Achia Kohn-Tavor, Benjamin Arubas
- Village and synagogue at Ḥorvat Kur / Jürgen K. Zangenberg
- The Ḥuqoq synagogue excavations : report on the 2011-2018 seasons / Jodi Magness, Shua Kisilevitz, Matthew Grey, Dennis Mizzi, Karen Britt, Ra'anan Boustan
- The synagogue at Khirbet Wadi Ḥamam / Uzi Leibner
- A Second Temple-period synagogue in the northern part of Magdaia / Dina Avshalom-Gorni, / Arfan Najar, Rina Talgam
- The synagogue at Khirbet Qana / C. Thomas McCollough
- The Sepphoris synagogue and its mosaic / Zeev Weiss
- Bet She'arim : a new look at the synagogue excavated in 1938-1940 / Zeev Weiss
- The synagogue at Ḥorvat Sumaqa / Shimon Dar
- A first-second century CE synagogue on a Jewish estate on top of Tel Rekhesh / Mordechai Aviam, Hisao Kuwabara, Shuichi Hasegawa, Yitzhak Paz
- The synagogue at Kafr Miṣr / Alexander Onn (edited and updated by / Uzi Leibner)
- Synagogues in the Golan. The synagogue at 'En Nashut / Zvi Uri Ma'oz
- The synagogue at Qaṣrin / Zvi Uri Ma'oz
- The synagogue at Deir / 'Aziz-Chaim Ben David, Oren Zingboym
- The synagogue at Majduliyya / Mechael Osband, Benjamin Arubas, Shalom Ariel
- The synagogue at Umm el-Qanatir / Yehoshua (Yeshu) Dray, Ilana Gonen, Chaim Ben David
- The Kursi Beach synagogue and inscription / Michal Artzy, Eran Meir, Haim Cohen, Haggai Misgav
- Samaritan synagogues. Samaritan synagogues / Yitzhak Magen
- The synagogue at the Raqit estate / Shimon Dar
- Synagogues in Judaea and southern Israel. A Second Temple-period synagogue at Khirbet Diab in western Benjamin / Binyamin Har-Even
- The synagogue at Qiryat Sefer / Yitzhak Magen, Yoav Tzionit, Orna Sirkis
- A synagogue of the Second Temple period at Khirbat Umm el-'Umdan / Alexander Onn, Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah
- The public building at Ḥorvat 'Ethri : a synagogue from the middle Roman period in the Judaean foothills / Boaz Zissu, Amir Ganor
- The synagogue at Ma'on in Judea / David Amit, Zvi Ilan
- The synagogue at Ḥorvat Rimmon / Amos Kloner
- The synagogue at Ḥorvat 'Anim / David Amit
- A Hasmonean-period synagogue at Jericho / Ehud Netzer, Yaakov Kalman, Rachel Laureys-Chachy
- Diaspora synagogues. Synagogues in Asia Minor : an overview / Yunus Demirci
- The ancient synagogue of Priene in western Turkey / Nadin Burkhardt
- The Byzantine-period synagogue at Andriake in Lyda, southern Turkey / Nevzat Çevik, Hanan Eshel
- The synagogue at Saranda, Albania / Ehud Netzer, Gideon Foerster
- An ancient synagogue in the port city of Qani, Yemen / Joseph Patrich.
- Notes:
- Companion volume to Ancient synagogues revealed, 1982.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789652211293
- 965221129X
- OCLC:
- 1391781384
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