Ancient Synagogues, Volume 1

Ancient Synagogues, Volume 1

Author: Risto Ilmari Uro

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-07

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9004532358

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This collection of over twenty essays brings together scholars from three continents to discuss the early synagogue. It addresses the questions of: When and where did the synagogue originate? What was its early distribution? What was its role in Judaism? The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004112544).


The Ancient Synagogue from Its Origins to 200 C.E.

The Ancient Synagogue from Its Origins to 200 C.E.

Author: Anders Runesson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 9004161163

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This volume gathers for the first time all of the primary source material on the early synagogues up through the Second Century C. E. Each entry contains bibliographic citations and interpretative comments. An Introduction frames the current state of synagogue research, while extensive indices allow for easy location of specific allusions.


Sacred Realm

Sacred Realm

Author: Steven Fine

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Beautiful illustrations and maps transport the reader into the remains of synagogues as far afield as North Africa, Italy, Asia Minor, Israel, and Syria. Sacred Realm complements an exhibition organized by the Yeshiva University Museum in New York. The exhibition brings together archaeological artifacts and manuscripts from museums in North America, Europe, and Israel, most of which have never before been displayed in the Unites States.


The Ancient Synagogue

The Ancient Synagogue

Author: Lee I. Levine

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 0300074751

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Annotation The synagogue was one of the most central and revolutionary institutions of ancient Judaism leaving an indelible mark on Christianity and Islam as well. This commanding book provides an in-depth and comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period to the end of late antiquity. Drawing exhaustively on archeological evidence and on such literary sources as rabbinic material, the New Testament, Jewish writings of the Second Temple period, and Christian and pagan works, Lee Levine traces the development of the synagogue from what was essentially a communal institution to one which came to embody a distinctively religious profile. Exploring its history in the Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods in both Palestine and the Diaspora, he describes the synagogue's basic features: its physical remains; its role in the community; its leadership; the roles of rabbis, Patriarchs, women, and priests in its operation; its liturgy; and its art. What emerges is a fascinating mosaic of a dynamic institution that succeeded in integrating patterns of social and religious behavior from the contemporary non-Jewish society while maintaining a distinctively Jewish character.


Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E.

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

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Following 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 Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, Volume 1 Mikra

The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, Volume 1 Mikra

Author: Martin-Jan Mulder

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 961

ISBN-13: 900427510X

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Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum Section 1 - The Jewish people in the first century Historial geography, political history, social, cultural and religious life and institutions Edited by S. Safrai and M. Stern in cooperation with D. Flusser and W.C. van Unnik Section 2 - The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud Section 3 - Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature


Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations

Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations

Author: Philip A. Harland

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780800635893

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Ephesus, Galatia, Troas, and Pergamum are familiar names to readers of the New Testament. But what made this region such fertile ground for early synagogues and congregations of those who followed Christ? How did the earliest churches and synagogues organize themselves? How did other voluntary associations operate within the Roman empire? How did such organizations relate to the constraints of imperial religion? These are some of the questions that Philip Harland addresses in this stimulating look at first-century Roman Asia. He surveys the various forms of guilds and associations in the eastern Roman empire. Asia Minor is one of the primary regions of Paul's journeys described in Acts, and it provided the context for several New Testament books, especially the Pastoral Epistles, 1 Peter, and Revelation. The author's fresh look at ancient inscriptions reveals new insights about the formation, operation, and functions of congregations and synagogues within the larger framework of voluntary associations in the Roman world.


Ancient Synagogues, Volume 2

Ancient Synagogues, Volume 2

Author: Risto Ilmari Uro

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-07

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9004532366

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This collection of over twenty essays brings together scholars from three continents to discuss the early synagogue. It addresses the questions of: When and where did the synagogue originate? What was its early distribution? What was its role in Judaism? The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004112544).


Ancient Synagogues

Ancient Synagogues

Author: Dan Urman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 9789004112544

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This collection of over twenty essays brings together scholars from three continents to discuss the early synagogue. It addresses the questions of: When and where did the synagogue originate? What was its early distribution? What was its role in Judaism?