The study of ancient Judaism has enjoyed a steep rise in interest and publications in recent decades, although the focus has often been on the ideas and beliefs represented in ancient Jewish texts rather than on the daily lives and the material culture of Jews/Judaeans and their communities. The nascent institution of the synagogue formed an increasingly important venue for communal gathering and daily or weekly practice. This collection of essays brings together a broad spectrum of new archaeological and textual data with various emergent theories and interpretative methods in order to address the need to understand the place of the synagogue in the daily and weekly procedures, community frameworks, and theological structures in which Judaeans, Galileans, and Jewish people in the Diaspora lived and gathered. The interdisciplinary studies will be of great significance for anyone studying ancient Jewish belief, practice, and community formation.

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Publisher

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Year

2020

ISBN

9783647522159

Edition

Topic

Theology & Religion

Subtopic

Jewish Theology

Title page
Copyright
Table of contents
Body
Preface
Lutz Doering and Andrew R. Krause: Introduction: Synagogues in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
I. Advances in the Archaeology of Synagogues from the Hellenistic andRoman Periods
II. Interpreting Material Remains and Literary Sources
III. Theorizing Practice in Ancient Synagogues
IV. Legal, Political, and Cultural Contexts of Ancient Synagogues
Contributors to this Volume
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects