From the Magdala Stone to the Syriac Bema: Mutual Influences Between the Liturgical Space in the Early Synagogue and Church

by Rina Talgam, Arfan Najar, Dina Avshalom Gorni

This book sheds light on the reciprocal relations between liturgical performance and the physical spaces in which they took place in synagogues and churches in antiquity. The kernel of the manuscript revolves around a decorated stone that was found during the excavations of a synagogue dated to the first century CE at Magdala on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. The book displays how this important archaeological discovery radically transforms our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004707727
• ISBN13: 9789004707726
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 454 Pages