The Ancient Synagogue
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The Ancient Synagogue

The First Thousand Years

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The Ancient Synagogue

The First Thousand Years

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The synagogue was one of the most central and revolutionary institutions of ancient Judaism, leaving an indelible mark on Christianity and Islam as well. This commanding book provides an in-depth and comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period to the end of late antiquity. Drawing exhaustively on archeological evidence and on such literary sources as rabbinic material, the New Testament, Jewish writings of the Second Temple period, and Christian and pagan works, Lee Levine traces the development of the synagogue from what was essentially a communal institution to one which came to embody a distinctively religious profile. Exploring its history in the Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods in both Palestine and the Diaspora, he describes the synagogue's basic features: its physical remains; its role in the community; its leadership; the roles of rabbis, Patriarchs, women, and priests in its operation; its liturgy; and its art. What emerges is a fascinating mosaic of a dynamic institution that succeeded in integrating patterns of social and religious behavior from the contemporary non-Jewish society while maintaining a distinctively Jewish character.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780300129007
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Jewish Theology

Table of contents

  1. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  2. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
  3. CHRONOLOGY
  4. one INTRODUCTION
  5. PART I: THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYNAGOGUE
  6. two ORIGINS
  7. three PRE-70 JUDAEA
  8. four THE PRE-70 DIASPORA
  9. five THE SECOND TEMPLE SYNAGOGUE—ITS ROLE AND FUNCTIONS
  10. six LATE ROMAN PALESTINE (70–FOURTH CENTURY C.E.)
  11. seven BYZANTINE PALESTINE
  12. eight DIASPORA SYNAGOGUES
  13. PART II: THE SYNAGOGUE AS AN INSTITUTION
  14. nine THE BUILDING
  15. ten THE COMMUNAL DIMENSION
  16. eleven LEADERSHIP
  17. twelve THE PATRIARCH (NASI) AND THE SYNAGOGUE
  18. thirteen THE SAGES AND THE SYNAGOGUE
  19. fourteen WOMEN IN THE SYNAGOGUE
  20. fifteen PRIESTS
  21. sixteen LITURGY
  22. seventeen ICONOGRAPHY: THE LIMITS OF INTERPRETATION
  23. eighteen DIACHRONIC AND SYNCHRONIC DIMENSIONS—THE SYNAGOGUE IN CONTEXT
  24. nineteen EPILOGUE
  25. GLOSSARY
  26. ABBREVIATIONS
  27. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  28. ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
  29. SOURCE INDEX
  30. SUBJECT INDEX