The Magdala synagogue and its stone
Purpose-built synagogues stood in Galilean towns during the first century — the setting the Gospels take for granted.
Confirmado por el terrenoYacimiento excavado1st century AD
A synagogue in use before AD 70, with mosaic and fresco, and at its centre a carved stone block showing a seven-branched menorah — the earliest such depiction known from a synagogue, and apparently carved by someone who had seen the temple.
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues.
- Hallado
- Migdal, on the Sea of Galilee, Israel, 2009 — Israel Antiquities Authority salvage excavation
- Se conserva en
- In place; the stone in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Cómo llegó hasta nosotros
- Excavado, o todavía en pie donde se construyó.
Qué muestra
The building is securely pre-70. Any link to a particular visit is not something the archaeology can supply.
Cómo lo usan los historiadores
A major find for the history of the synagogue; only a handful of pre-70 examples are known.
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