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Synagogue screen fragments, Ashkelon

42a Ashkelon

Joan Branham has suggested that the synagogue “chancel screen” was related to the fence that surrounded the Temple of Jerusalem, beyond which gentiles were forbidden to enter.

This relationship is in part linguistic, as the same word is used for the Temple partition and that of the synagogue in modern Hebrew. In Middot 2:3 this fence, which is said to have been “ten handbreadths high,” is called a soreg.

This term is today used in modern Hebrew to describe synagogue “chancel screens.”

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