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Zodiac, Beth Alpha synagogue mosaic pavement

47 Beit Alpha

The popularity of the zodiac suggests that it was borrowed from the general context, but that its popularity in synagogues was related to the deep engagement of the Jews of late antiquity with the heavens, especially as given expression in a wide variety of ways in the Palestinian Jewish literature of that era.

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