News tagged with synagogue
Piecing together the priceless 'Cairo Genizah'
A well-known collection of historical texts, the Cairo Genizah is one of the most valuable sources of primary documents for medieval historians and religious scholars. The 350,000 fragments found in the Genizah ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 18, 2011 |
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International team explores rural Galilee and finds ancient synagogue
Among various important discoveries, the 2010 Kinneret Regional Project discovered an ancient synagogue, in use at around 400 AD. This year’s archeological focus is the first systematic excavation on Horvat Kur, a village ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Ruins of 7th century Arab palace identified in Israel
Ruins in northern Israel previously thought to have been a synagogue have now been identified as a 7th century palace used by the Umayyad caliph who started construction of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, archaeologists ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Text of Jewish exorcism discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- A rare - and possibly unique - text describing a Jewish exorcism has been discovered by a scholar of medieval Jewish studies.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Archaeologists find early depiction of a menorah
(AP) -- Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday. The ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 11, 2009 |
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