Invention of the First-Century Synagogue

by Lidia D. Matassa

Book Overview

This work critically reevaluates the scholarship surrounding the identification of first-century synagogues at five key sites: Delos, Jericho, Herodium, Masada, and Gamla. These sites are consistently used in modern scholarship as comparators for all other early synagogues. Matassa reviews the scholarly discourse concerning each site, inspects each site, and thoroughly examines the excavation reports. Through close inspection of the material evidence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884143198
• ISBN13: 9780884143192
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: SBL Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"