This collection of over twenty essays brings together scholars from three continents to discuss the early synagogue. It addresses the questions of: When and whe

This volume gathers for the first time all of the primary source material on the early synagogues up through the Second Century C. E. Each entry contains biblio

Beautiful illustrations and maps transport the reader into the remains of synagogues as far afield as North Africa, Italy, Asia Minor, Israel, and Syria. Sacred

Annotation The synagogue was one of the most central and revolutionary institutions of ancient Judaism leaving an indelible mark on Christianity and Islam as we

Explores the ways in which divergent ethnic, national and religious communities interacted with one another within the synagogue during the Greco-Roman period.