by hadassah | Sep 18, 2016 | Talmud and Daily Life
Jewish archaeology is a way of studying the Jewish past through objects that were found in the ground and can be read within the context of Jewish history, literature and art. Prof. Steven Fine, Yeshiva University, Produced by Down Low Pictures for COJS
by hadassah | Nov 18, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Talmud and Daily Life
Since the nineteenth century, scholars of ancient Judaism have interpreted Jewish ossuaries in terms of the resurrection/redemption trope. Most prominently, they have associated ossuary burial with the Pharisaic and early Christian belief in the resurrection of the...
by hadassah | Nov 17, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Talmud and Daily Life
The Greek inscription below the menorah, a Jewish version of Psalm 136:25 (Psalm 135 in the Septuagint), was published in Berlin in 1943, with minor mention of the lampstand. The place and date of publication may or may not be relevant; epigraphers often disregard the...
by hadassah | Nov 17, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Talmud and Daily Life
Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World, 1996, “Ancient Synagogue Bema,” built from spolia and facsimilies of artifacts from various synagogues in Israel. Foreground: the Meroth synagogue mosaic. Left: model of the Beth Alpha...
by hadassah | Nov 17, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Talmud and Daily Life
We see in this design of the Dura Temple of Dagon the garments that the High Priest wore, the utensils and objects that were used in the Temple to offer sacrifices and the other people who served in the Temple.
by hadassah | Nov 17, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Talmud and Daily Life
Here is a picture of a ceiling of the synagogue of Chodorow, Ukraine. It has subsequently been destroyed. You see diagrams and verses for each of the 12 tribes you would expect to see in a synagogue.
