Ancient Synagogue Seating Capacities
Author: Chad S. Spigel
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9783161518799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised and expanded thesis (Ph.D.) - Duke University, Durham, NC, 2008.
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Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E.
Author: Steven H. Werlin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9004298401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the failure of the Bar-Kokhba revolt in the second century, the majority of the Jewish population of Palestine migrated northward away from Jerusalem to join the communities of Jews in Galilee and the Golan Heights. Although rabbinic sources indicate that from the second century onward the demographic center of Jewish Palestine was in Galilee, archaeological evidence of Jewish communities is found in the southern part of the country as well. In The Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E., Steve Werlin considers ten synagogues uncovered in southern Palestine. Through an in-depth analysis of the art, architecture, epigraphy, and stratigraphy, the author demonstrates how monumental, religious structures provide critical insight into the lives of those who were strangers among Christians and Muslims in their ancestral homeland.
The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine: Current Issues and Emerging Trends
Author: Rick Bonnie
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2020-12-14
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 3647522147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together leading experts in the field of ancient synagogue studies to discuss the current issues and emerging trends in the study of synagogues in ancient Palestine. Divided into four thematic units, the different contributions apply archaeological, textual, historical and art historical methodologies to questions related to ancient synagogues. Part One addresses issues related to the origins and early development of synagogues up to 200 CE. The contributions provide different explanations to the alleged lack of evidence for synagogues built in the second and third centuries CE and ask how much continuity or change there is between the late Second Temple and late Roman/early Byzantine synagogues. Part Two deals with architecture and dating of ancient synagogues. It gives an overview of all synagogues found so far, approaches the dating of Galilean synagogues in the light of the recently-exposed synagogue at Huqoq, and provides a stylistic re-evaluation of the Capernaum synagogue decoration. Part three examines leadership, power and daily life in late antique synagogue contexts, illustrating non-monumental inscriptions, amulets and dining in synagogue contexts as well as the role of individual benefactors. Section four contextualizes synagogue art. An overview of synagogue mosaics in late antique Palestine is complemented with reinterpretations of the mosaics two synagogues. The section also offers a discussion of the appearance of the menorah.
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture
Author: David Hamidović
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-05-20
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9004399291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication. Edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah Bowen Savant, it gathers together the contributions of seventeen scholars involved in Biblical, Early Jewish and Christian studies. The volume attests to the spreading of digital humanities in these fields and presents fundamental analysis of the rise of visual culture as well as specific test-cases concerning ancient manuscripts. Sophisticated visualisation tools, stylometric analysis, teaching and visual data, epigraphy and visualisation belong notably to the varied overview presented in the volume.
Rabbinic Body Language: Non-Verbal Communication in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity
Author: Catherine Hezser
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-01-16
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 900433906X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study constitutes the first comprehensive examination of rabbinic body language represented in Palestinian rabbinic sources of late antiquity. Catherine Hezser examines rabbis’ appearance and demeanor, spatial movement, gestures, and facial expressions on the basis of literary and social-anthropological methods and theories. She discusses the various forms of rabbis’ non-verbal communication in the context of Graeco-Roman and ancient Christian literary sources and in connection with the material culture of Roman and early Byzantine Palestine. Catherine Hezser convincingly shows that in rabbinic literature body language serves as an important means of rabbis’ self-fashioning. Rabbinic texts create the image of a particularly Jewish type of intellectual who functioned and competed for adherents within the highly visual and body-conscious environment of late antiquity.
From Qumran to the Synagogues
Author: Géza G. Xeravits
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-03-18
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 3110614375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume collects papers written during the past two decades that explore various aspects of late Second Temple period Jewish literature and the figurative art of the Late Antique synagogues. Most of the papers have a special emphasis on the reinterpretation of biblical figures in early Judaism or demonstrate how various biblical traditions converged into early Jewish theologies. The structure of the volume reflects the main directions of the author’s scholarly interest, examining the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and Late Antique synagogues. The book is edited for the interest of scholars of Second Temple Judaism, biblical interpretation, synagogue studies and the effective history of Scripture.
The Lives of Jewish Things
Author: Gabrielle Anna Berlinger
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2024-12-03
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 081435047X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the paths of Jewish things across time, place, and culture, this collection reveals complex stories of individual and collective struggles to survive.
From the Magdala Stone to the Syriac Bema
Author: Rina Talgam
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-11-28
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9004707735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sheds light on the reciprocal relations between liturgical performance and the physical spaces in which they took place in synagogues and churches in antiquity. The kernel of the manuscript revolves around a decorated stone that was found during the excavations of a synagogue dated to the first century CE at Magdala on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. The book displays how this important archaeological discovery radically transforms our understanding of the changes in the shape of the liturgical space and the liturgical furniture in the places of assembly of the two sister faiths, Judaism and Christianity.
The Role of the Synagogue in the Aims of Jesus
Author: Jordan J. Ryan
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 150643844X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReviewing what we now know about actual synagogues in the land of Israel and their public role in Jewish life and culture, Jordan J. Ryan shows that Gospel narratives placed in synagogues accurately reflect the ancient synagogue setting. He argues for the historical plausibility of the setting of these narratives and suggests that synagogue research must be a starting point for their interpretation. He further argues that Jesus‘s efforts at the restoration of Israel were intentionally aimed at the synagogue as an institution of public and political life.
Construction, Coherence and Connotations
Author: Pierre J. Jordaan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-08-22
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 3110465671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese fourteen selected essays were originally read at the LXXSA international conference: Construction, Coherence and Connotation in Septuagint, Apocryphal and Cognate Literature (28-30 August 2015), hosted by the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. Here, the intention was to apply new critical theory and approaches to the fields of Old Testament Scripture as well as associated Apocryphal and Cognate literature, with a specific focus on the interrelated recurring theme of the Wisdom of the deity and its decryption and reception at various times in history. In this regard, it was felt that this theme and associated source texts had been largely overlooked in recent scholarship. Here the aim was to attract recent research by both leading national as well as international scholars which not only shed new light on Old Testament Apocrypha and so-called Pseudepigraphical literature but which also critically reviewed certain biblical wisdom texts which are foundational for both the Christian as well as Jewish communities. As a consequence, many of the essays deal with the apocryphal Wisdom of Sirach. However, important contributions may also be found apropos Micah, Daniel, Baruch, 2 Maccabees, Tobit, Susanna, Judith, and the works of Josephus Flavius.
