Synagogues

Günümüzde Suriye'nin doğusunda bulunan antik Dura-Europos kentinin keşfi, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Tarihi açısından bir dönüm noktasıdır. Dura araştırmacılarından biri olan Hopkins, ortaya çıkarılan hazine değerindeki resimleri “soluk topraktan fışkıran resim vahası” olarak ifade etmi…

This study examines the work of young singers in the Brooklyn Chassidic community who are engaged in revival of cantorial music, a style of recorded religious vocal music from the early 20th century. Their explorations of the Jewish music archive give shape to practices of self-…

This study addresses the figural mosaic floors of the late third or early fourth century synagogue at Khirbet Wadi Hamam and the fifth century synagogue at Horvat Huqoq. While mosaic floors were common in Palestinian synagogues in Late Antiquity, Wadi Hamam and Huqoq differ sign…

Did most Jews living in Palestine in the first through fifth centuries C.E. worship regularly in synagogues? Is there a method that can be used to answer this question? In this dissertation I suggest that there is a method that can be used to help answer the first question: the …

Following the failure of the Bar-Kokhba revolt in 135/6 C.E., the majority of the Jewish population of ancient Palestine migrated northward away from Jerusalem to join communities of Jews in Galilee and the Golan Heights. Although rabbinic sources indicate that from the 2nd c. o…