Sentences with phrase «century synagogue»

Curaçao is home to interesting landmarks and experiences, including a 17th century synagogue, a floating bridge and even an ostrich farm.

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The rector, seated like a rabbi in a first - century synagogue, preaches on the texts.

Maybe that's the kind of rapt attention those first - century synagogue worshipers in Capernaum experienced as they listened to Jesus preach.

When we examine a first - century synagogue today, we can't tell if it's a place that Jesus» followers would have attended or not.

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It was, until late in the 20th century, the only major European city to have a mosque, Catholic church, Orthodox church and synagogue within the same neighborhood.

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.

We are likewise learning more about first century religion in Palestine — as, for example, about the place of synagogue, Torah, temple and sacrifice; the meaning of the terms «Pharisee,» «Essene,» «Sadducee,» «apocalyptist»; the nature of Judaism and of rabbinic teaching.

That the Bible is the record of centuries of religious change, that its early concepts are allied with primitive, animistic faiths, that between such origins and the messages of Hebrew prophets and Christian evangelists an immensely important development is reflected in the Book — this general view is the familiar possession of many in both synagogue and church.

For centuries interpreters have explored and exploited this male language to articulate theology; to shape the contours and content of the church, synagogue and academy; and to instinct human beings — female and male — in who they are, what roles they should play, and how they should behave.

For centuries interpreters have explored and exploited this male language to articulate theology; to shape the contours and content of the church, synagogue and academy; and to instinct human beings — female and male — in who they are,...

This project is one of several synagogues being excavated near the epicenter of Jesus» ministry, providing new insights into worship communities in the centuries after Jesus.

Participation in the life of a church or synagogue, and in the century - spanning heritage of a couple's religious tradition, often stimulates and nurtures the development of spiritual intimacy.

There are the signs of the zodiac in the mosaic floors of some synagogues, though those are later than the first century.

When they were driven out from synagogue and temple, they faced a disruption in their religious thought and practise comparable with the shock of the Exile to the Jews over six centuries before.

In the Christian thinking of the first century, therefore, the liberation of church from synagogue inaugurated a new era; the apologetic necessity of being persuasive to Gentiles overbore the tendency to be content with Hebraisms; and even in the New Testament, predominantly Jewish though it is in its backgrounds, one sees the beginning of that larger mental hospitality which led at last to the overwhelming influence of Greek thought on Christian theology.

The first century conflict between church and synagogue was hardly incidental.

Although today the synagogue is in ruins, enough of the structure remains to convey an image of what was there 20 centuries ago.

A federal court has ruled that Shearith Israel in New York actually owns the Touro Synagogue building in Newport, the result of twists in a history spanning centuries.

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».

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

From the first century B.C.E., this city lay on the frontier of the Roman and Persian empires, which took turns controlling it, and once held both one of the world's oldest Jewish synagogues and oldest Christian churches.

There are also a small number of Jewish synagogues in Jamaica, dating from the 17th century..

synagogues in Jamaica, dating from 17th century.

Archaeological excavations carried out in 1990 resulted in the discovery of the remains of the 7th - century Jewish settlement near Baku and of a synagogue

Sarajevo is a beautiful historical city nested between five mountains, known by its cultural and religious diversities — the place in which Islam, Judaism and Christianity are present in centuries, and towers of different churches, mosques and a synagogue almost literary touching each other, placed in the same little square.

When children began arriving at Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century, immigrant aid societies, churches, synagogues, and private citizens provided care and guardianship.

The Palace of the Grand Masters, Roloi Clock Tower, and Kahal Kadosh Shalom Synagogue all reflect the ruling cultures that have resided here over the centuries.

Boasting Andalucia's only surviving medieval synagogue, and adjacent is the delightful Casa de Sefarad, with original 14th century features guests are bound to enjoy.

These include the Kariye (Khora) Mosque and Museum and the characteristic neighbourhood of Balat, with its colourful century - old Ottoman houses protected by UNESCO, with the iconic Pierre Loti Hill only a five - minute drive away and the city's historic Holy Churches, Synagogues and Mosques within walking distance.

It was built in 13th century as «New synagogue», but the Prague Jewish community was bigger and bigger, so there was a need of other synagogues as well.

The building at 87 Eldridge Street has a rich history, reflecting the changing character of the Lower East Side of Manhattan over the past century, having been respectively a tenement, a synagogue, an African American church, and finally Resnick's studio and home from 1977 until his death in 2004.

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.

The work took three years, and completing this commission made Rand the author of the only narratively painted synagogue in the world and the only one we know of since the 2nd Century Dura - Europos.

Formerly she was the Assistant Curator of 20th - century Art at The Jewish Museum, New York, appointed in 1993, and curated Light x Eight: The Hanukkah Project, Contemporary Artist Project: Kristin Oppenheim, and Louis I. Kahn Drawings: Synagogue Projects which traveled to The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Measuring 16 feet in diameter, the window is the only 21st - century element in the 1887 synagogue, which was renamed the Museum at Eldridge street in 2008, though it still supports a small congregation.

The Frank Stella and Synagogues of Historic Poland exhibition is a unique opportunity to meet the person universally regarded as one of the most important American artists of the 20th century.

Museum director Dariusz Stola said his institution is an appropriate venue for the works because one of its key exhibits is a spectacular, full - scale recreation of a 17th - century painted synagogue — the kind that inspired Stella's creations.

...... According to rabbinic tradition, they were rectangles, with sharp corners, and indeed they are so depicted in the 3rd century paintings at the Dura - Europos Synagogue and in Christian art throughout the 1st millennium..