Ancient Synagogues in Palestine: A Re-evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures

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Jodi Magness (Kenan Distinguished Professor, Kenan Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Ancient Synagogues in Palestine

A Re-evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures

Jodi Magness (Kenan Distinguished Professor, Kenan Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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Oxford University Press
21 March 2024

Religious buildings; Biblical archaeology; Judaism

Series: Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology

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. Ancient Synagogues in Palestine 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.

By: Jodi Magness (Kenan Distinguished Professor Kenan Distinguished Professor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 2022
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780197267653
ISBN 10: 0197267653
Series: Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 21 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jodi Magness is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Past President of the Archaeological Institute of America. Magness' research interests focus on Palestine in the Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic periods, and Diaspora Judaism in the Roman world. She has published eleven books, three of which have won awards, and dozens of articles in journals and edited volumes. Since 2011, Magness has directed excavations at Huqoq in Israel's Galilee.