The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine.

• Superior document: Forschungen Zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments Series
• Author: Bonnie, Rick.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hakola, Raimo.; Tervahauta, Ulla.; David, Chaim Ben.; Spigel, Chad.; Stern, Karen B.; Weiss, Zeev.; Xeravits, Geza G.; Runesson, Anders.; Cirafesi, Wally V.
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Forschungen Zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Raimo Hakola / Rick Bonnie / Ulla Tervahauta: The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine: Current Issues and Emerging Trends -- I. Early Synagogues and Their Historical Context -- Anders Runesson / Wally V. Cirafesi: Reassessing the Impact of 70 CE on the Origins and Development of Palestinian Synagogues -- Rick Bonnie: Hasmonean Memories and Hellenistic Building Traditions. The Appearance and Disappearance of Synagogue Buildings in the Late Second Temple Period -- Tom McCollough: The Synagogue at Khirbet Qana in Its Village Context -- Matthew J. Grey: Priests, Judean Community Assemblies, and Synagogue Development in the Second Temple Period -- Jordan Ryan: The Socio-Political Context of Public Synagogue Debates in the Second Temple Period -- II. Architecture and Dating -- Jodi Magness: The Huqoq Synagogue. A Regional Variant of the Galilean Type -- Chaim Ben David: On the Number of Synagogues and Their Location in the Holy Land -- Svetlana Tarkhanova: The Friezes with the "Peopled Scrolls" Motif in the Capernaum Synagogue. Dating by Stylistic Method and Some Aspects of the Reconstruction -- III. Leadership, Power and Daily Life -- Karen B. Stern: Prayer as Power. Amulets, Graffiti, and Vernacular Writing in Ancient Levantine Synagogues -- Eric Ottenheijm / Jonathan Pater: Meals in the Synagogue. Reassessing the Evidence -- Raimo Hakola: Galilean Synagogues as Local Responses to Cultural Globalization in Late Antiquity -- Chad Spigel: A Quantitative Analysis of House-Synagogues in Ancient Palestine -- Ulla Tervahauta: Sacred Space and Torah Shrines in Late Antique Synagogues -- IV. Contextualizing Synagogue Art -- Zeev Weiss: Visual vs. Virtual Reality: Interpreting Synagogue Mosaic Art -- Géza G. Xeravits: A Note on the Japhi'a Synagogue.

Lidia Chakovskaya: The Artistic Milieu of the Mosaic of the Beth Alpha Synagogue -- Gary Gilbert: The Appearance of the Menorah in Ancient Jewish Art -- Index -- Authors.