Jewish Art – Overview
Being a Diaspora people, Jews create art using the same material culture of their surroundings. Prof. Steven Fine, Yeshiva University, Produced by Down Low Pictures for COJS
Social and Religious Life in Diaspora
Geniza Door, Cairo.
The door of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, where the Cairo Genizah was discovered.
Hochschule, Berlin.
Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Berlin. The great success of the late twentieth-century “nonrabbinic Judaism” movement has been the general acknowledgement that the Jewish world in late antiquity was indeed complex, and that classical rabbinic sources only convey some of that complexity. This said, visual sources provide little evidence for a religion that was greatly […]
Dura Purim
Dura inscription on the walls of Synagogue on the Purim theme. Dura Europos Inscription – A variety of inscriptions were found in the Synagogue and they provide information about the worshippers and the Jews in Dura. The inscriptions are written in three different languages: Aramaic, Greek and Middle Persian, in keeping with the multilingual population living in […]
Dura Europos Inscription
Dura Europos Inscription – A variety of inscriptions were found in the synagogue and they provide information about the worshippers and the Jews in Dura. The inscriptions are written in three different languages: Aramaic, Greek and Middle Persian, in keeping with the multilingual population living in and around Dura Europos. The inscriptions were painted on the […]
Dura Parchment
Dura prayer parchment is the earliest extant archaeological evidence of Hebrew prayer from post-Temple times. Dura Europos Inscription – A variety of inscriptions can be seen in the Synagogues and they provide information about the worshippers and the Jews in Dura. The inscriptions are written in three different languages: Aramaic, Greek and Middle Persian, in keeping with […]
Dura Model
Dura Model Synagogues built in 3rd century Syria. Dura Europos Inscriptions – A variety of inscriptions were present in the Synagogues and they provide information about the worshippers and the Jews in Dura. The inscriptions are written in three different languages: Aramaic, Greek and Middle Persian, in keeping with the multilingual population living in and around Dura Europos. […]
Lee Levine. “The Synagogue of Dura-Europos.” Ancient Synagogues Revealed. Ed. Lee Levine. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1981.
Among ancient synagogues, the most sensational find, and the richest in its implications and ramifications, is that of Dura-Europos. Externally the Dura synagogue was modest in the extreme. It was located in a residential area and was originally a private house. In this regard there is no comparison with the architectural impressiveness of the Sardis […]