{"product_id":"ancient-synagogues-in-palestine-jodi-magness-9780197267653","title":"Ancient Synagogues in Palestine: A Re-Evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures","description":"Dozens of ancient synagogues have been discovered around the Mediterranean, most of which date to the fourth-sixth centuries CE and are concentrated in Palestine. In the 1930 Schweich Lectures, Eleazar Lipa Sukenik established a typology and chronology for these buildings. \u003cem\u003eAncient Synagogues in Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e evaluates Sukenik's conclusions in light of new discoveries since his time. It opens with an overview of ancient synagogues in the region, followed by a survey of the historiography of the study of these buildings, highlighting its ideological roots in the early Zionist movement. In the final chapters, Magness examines the evidence for the dating of the synagogues at Khirbet Wadi Hamam and Capernaum, arguing that different synagogue types overlapped and were contemporary to the fourth-sixth centuries CE instead of being sequential, as Sukenik thought. This conclusion contradicts a widely accepted view that late antique Jewish communities in Palestine suffered and declined under supposedly oppressive Christian rule.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jodi Magness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197267653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197267653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Jodi Magness","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46233309348095,"sku":"9780197267653","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c1c1b93-b8de-4404-a165-d8b7a2576fbf.jpg?v=1728992655","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ancient-synagogues-in-palestine-jodi-magness-9780197267653","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}