by hadassah | Sep 20, 2016 | Social and Religious Life in Diaspora
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
by hadassah | Nov 18, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Social and Religious Life in Diaspora
The door of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, where the Cairo Genizah was discovered.
by hadassah | Nov 17, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Social and Religious Life in Diaspora
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...
by hadassah | Nov 16, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Social and Religious Life in Diaspora
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...
by hadassah | Nov 16, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Social and Religious Life in Diaspora
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...
by hadassah | Nov 16, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Social and Religious Life in Diaspora
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...
