Sentences with phrase «ancient synagogue»

Archaeologists discovered the scroll in 1970 at En - Gedi, the site of an ancient synagogue in Israel that burned in the sixth century.

We know how traders worked without enforceable laws of contract in the Middle Ages partly because of «an extraordinary cache of eleventh - century documents found in an ancient synagogue in old Cairo».

CNN: Mosaic in Israel shows biblical Samson Archaeologists are reveling in the discovery of an ancient synagogue in northern Israel, a «monumental» structure with a mosaic floor depicting the biblical figure of Samson and a Hebrew inscription.

The best and most important evidence for the currency of the eschatological Kingdom of God expectation at the time of Jesus and its lack of definite form is the Kaddish prayer of the ancient synagogue.

(CNN)- Archaeologists are reveling in the discovery of an ancient synagogue in northern Israel, a «monumental» structure with a mosaic floor depicting the biblical figure of Samson and a Hebrew inscription.

Which is followed by the Art Nouveau Jewish Quarters with its ancient synagogues.

Not exact matches

The stories of the synagogue leader, the healed woman and the ancient patriarch teach us about daring to hold God accountable for promises God has made to care for God's people.

The synagogue - dating to the fourth and fifth centuries in both the Talmudic and late Roman periods - is in Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in the country's Galilee region, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said.

Further Voobus points out that it was neither the Greek Old Testament which became scriptural authority for Hellenistic Christianity nor the Hebrew original text which was translated into Syriac but the scriptures of the Palestinian synagogue, namely, the ancient Palestinian Targumim which came to be used among the Jewish Christians.

The books of Judith, Tobit, Wisdom, Sirach, First and Second Maccabees, above all the Psalms in their final revision, and the great prayers of the Synagogue, the primitive Kaddish and the ancient Palestinian recension of the Shemoneh Esreh, echoing in almost every line the thought of the Psalter and the Second Isaiah — it is here that we feel the vital pulse - beat of genuine Judaism.

Equating modern churches, pastors and practices with ancient Jewish synagogues, temples and priests and practices (such as tithing to the Levites) seems to be done primarily for the purpose of raising money.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

A stroll through the streets of Toledo will reveal ancient mosques, Gothic and Mudejar churches, Romanesque and Visigothic structures, synagogues and Renaissance palaces.

Among the acquisition highlights during the past two decades have been: in Archaeology, the Renée and Robert Belfer Collection of Ancient Glass and Greek and Roman Antiquity and the Demirjian Family European Bronze Age Collection; in Jewish Art and Life, an illuminated Mishneh Torah of Maimonides (ca. 1457), acquired jointly with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the restored 18th Century Tzedek ve - Shalom Synagogue from Paramaribo, Suriname; and, in the Fine Arts, Nicolas Poussin's «Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem» (1625), Rembrandt van Rijn's «St. Peter in Prison» (1631), the Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art, Jackson Pollock's «Horizontal Composition» (1949), the Noel and Harriette Levine Collection of Photography, and Gerhard Richter's «Abstraktes Bild» (1997); together with an active and ongoing program of acquisitions in contemporary art, including site - specific commissions by such artists as Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, and Doug and Mike Starn.

Cohen took to photographing graffiti, the pentimenti of revolution, but she also got what she originally came for, and more, from the rich colors and patterns that festooned ancient mosques and synagogues (a Tunisian synagogue is pictured on our home page) to the healer's wares in the market (below).

Folberg was commissioned by Aperture to document synagogues across the world, followed by a return to black - and - white in a series of night skies among ancient ruins of the Middle East, where separate images of the landscape and burned - in skies were digitally composited (a sure nod to Adams» techniques.)