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Ancient Synagogues in Palestine: A Re-Evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures

Ancient Synagogues in Palestine: A Re-Evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures

Magness, Jodi

Hardcover

Series: Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology

Religion General JudaismArchaeology

ISBN10: 0197267653
ISBN13: 9780197267653
Publisher: British Academy
Published: Mar 7 2024
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Dozens of ancient synagogues have been discovered around the Mediterranean, most of which date to the fourth-sixth centuries CE and are concentrated in Palestine. In the 1930 Schweich Lectures, Eleazar Lipa Sukenik established a typology and chronology for these buildings. Ancient Synagogues in Palestine evaluates Sukenik's conclusions in light of new discoveries since his time. It opens with an overview of ancient synagogues in the region, followed by a survey of the historiography of the study of these buildings, highlighting its ideological roots in the early Zionist movement. In the final chapters, Magness examines the evidence for the dating of the synagogues at Khirbet Wadi Hamam and Capernaum, arguing that different synagogue types overlapped and were contemporary to the fourth-sixth centuries CE instead of being sequential, as Sukenik thought. This conclusion contradicts a widely accepted view that late antique Jewish communities in Palestine suffered and declined under supposedly oppressive Christian rule.

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