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The ancient Jewish art of preserving — kept fresh Writer and food blogger Emily Paster’s new cookbook doesn’t offer the same canned recipes, though it has more than a taste of tradition ...
Judaism's Reform movement is launching a new storytelling podcast to engage new audiences in an old way of relating moral and religious lessons.
“Our work sheds light on a period when our only written sources about Judaism are rabbinic literature from the Jewish sages of this period and references in early Christian literature,” said ...
“This is the first time we’ve seen a depiction of the biblical heroines Deborah and Jael in ancient Jewish art,” said project director and UNC professor Jodi Magness.
The database's 260,000 catalogue entries, the fruits of 30 years of research, range from modernist synagogues to ancient Hebrew illuminated manuscripts.
A site in Israel continues to turn up stunning polychromatic mosaics from the late Roman empire that challenge current notions of ancient Jewish aesthetics and the art of depicting scripture.
A group of BYU archaeologists spent their summer at the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq near the Sea of Galilee in Israel, uncovering an ancient synagogue mosaic with rare biblical depictions. The ...
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“We’ve uncovered the first depiction of the episode of Elim ever found in ancient Jewish art,” said Magness.
Object Details author Kampf, Avram Contents The Synagogue: A house of prayer, study and assembly - Synagogue and ancient temple - A house of the people instead of a house of God - Worship by prayer ...