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The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, Syria. The former synagogue contained a forecourt and house of assembly with painted walls depicting people and animals, and a Torah shrine in the western wall facing Jerusalem. It was built backing on to the city wall, which was important in ...
publications on the synagogue and the Christian chapel of Dura-Europos president of the American Schools of Oriental Research Carl Hermann Kraeling (1897–1966), an American theologian, historian, and archaeologist; born in Brooklyn on March 10, 1897, and died in New Haven on November 14, 1966; he is known for his publications on the synagogue ...
The 3rd-century Dura-Europos synagogue established in 244 AD per dedicatory inscription on ceiling tile (though remodelled from an earlier synagogue) The 4th-century Apamea on Orontes Synagogue established in 392 AD per dedicatory inscription on mosaic. Jobar Synagogue, described as 2,000 years old. The main hall is at least mediaeval.
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The Dura-Europos synagogue, dating back to the mid-3rd century CE, revealed a significant collection of figurative paintings depicting scenes from the narratives of the Tanakh. The excavation of ruins from other ancient synagogues in the following decades yielded comparable iconography that contradicted the prohibitions imposed by contemporary ...
Sardis Synagogue (3rd century CE) Sardis, Turkey Fresco at the Dura-Europos synagogue, illustrating a scene from the Book of Esther, 244 CE. The earliest evidence for a synagogue is a stone-carved synagogue dedication inscription found in Lower Egypt and dating from the second half of the 3rd century BCE. [54]
Clark Hopkins is best known for his work at Doura Europos, where he was excavation director in 1932-1933 when the Franco-American mission made the extraordinary discovery of the synagogue. He left the detailed account of this discovery that would revolutionize the conceptions of Jewish and Christian art in several articles and in a posthumous ...
Dura-Europos church in Dura Europolis. On March 5, 1933, during the excavations conducted by Clark Hopkins amongst the ruins of a Roman border-town, Dura-Europos, on the lower Euphrates, under the embankment which filled in the street inside the wall and also covered the Christian church and the Jewish synagogue, the parchment fragment now known as Dura Parchment 24 was found.