Excavations at Khirbet Wadi Hamam (Lower Galilee): the synagogue and the settlement

Leibner, Uzi

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“…(Levine 2016;Laderman 2021). Especially noteworthy are the two recently excavated synagogues at Huqoq (Magness et al 2014(Magness et al , 2018Grey and Magness 2013;Britt and Boustan 2017;Gordon and Weiss 2018;Cielontko 2023) and Wadi Hamam (Leibner 2010;Leibner and Miller 2010), which greatly expand our knowledge of synagogue art and iconography in late antiquity. The depictions of an elephants, workers (Tower of Babel), a large male figure in military gear (Samson), among others, have elicited much discussion among scholars and different interpretations.…”

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Hezser

2023

The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity

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By focusing on Jews and Judaism in late antiquity, this Handbook fills a gap left by other volumes that deal with early Byzantine Christianity only. Jews interacted and competed with pagans and Christians and experienced a number of significant developments between the third and seventh centuries, which marks this period as a time of transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages: the emergence of synagogues as religious centers of local communities, the increasing significance of rabbinic Judaism and the compilation of rabbinic documents, the consolidation of Jewish Diaspora communities, and the expansion of rabbinic Judaism to Sasanian Persia (Babylonia), which eventually topped Byzantine Palestine in its importance for the development and survival of Judaism.Late antiquity, that is, the time period between the third and the seventh centuries C.E., is a particularly interesting period as far as Jews and Judaism are concerned. Within the wider contexts of the late Roman, early Byzantine, and Sasanian Persian Empires, in competition and conflict with Graeco-Roman, Christian, and Zoroastrian cultures, Jewish religious leadership structures, institutions, and practices developed that are still relevant today. Major developments occurred in this period --from small teacher-disciple circles to a distinct rabbinic group identity; from oral instruction to written documents; from synagogues as multi-functional buildings to centers of local religious communities; from the aniconism of the Second Temple period to the emergence of Jewish figurative art; from a focus on the Land of Israel to increasingly significant Diaspora communities --which indicate a transition from the time after the destruction of the Second Temple to a medieval Judaism with an established communal structure based on rabbis, synagogues, and academies.

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2023

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“…comm., unpublished. My thanks to L. Porath and D. Syon for their help. 97 Leibner 2010;Leibner and Bijovsky 2014. 98 See papyrus Muraba'at 114 (Cotton and Eck 2002), which mentions a Jewish man apparently living in one of the villages in the Jerusalem mountains who borrowed (money?)…”

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Rome: An Empire of Many Nations

2022

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The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's 'success' in governance than to illuminate the variety of individual experience in its own terms. The chapters here, reflecting a wide spectrum of professional expertise, range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Rome: An Empire of Many Nations

2021

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The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's “success” in governance than to illuminate the variety of individual experience in its own terms. The chapters here, reflecting a wide spectrum of professional expertise, range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues.

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Excavations at Khirbet Wadi Hamam (Lower Galilee): the synagogue and the settlement

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