Habra

Other Name: Khirbet Hebra
Religion: Jewish

Archaeological Evidences:

Period: Late Roman and/or Byzantine
Excavation: Unexcavated
Selected Surveyors: Moshe Schwabe (published 1944), Zvi Ilan (1980, 1989), Itamar Taxel (2006)
Main Finds: Two Aramaic dedicatory inscriptions, architectural elements including fragments of marble chancel and mosaic stones
Inscriptions: Aramaic (Schwabe 1944; Reich 1980; Fischer, Taxel and Amit 2008: 8-13, CIIP III: 187-189).
Mosaics: Yes

Geographic Details

Geographical Region: Judea
Unnamed Road, Bnaya, Israel

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Selected Bibliography:

Selected Bibliography
  1. Yardeni, A. "H. Ḥabra" in Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. ed. W. Ameling et. al., III: South Coast, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2014: 187-189.
  2. Reich, R. "A Note On the Aramaic Inscription from Kh. Habra" Atiqot 14, 1980: 96-98.
  3. Schwabe, M. "An Inscription on a Column from the Habra Synagogue" Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society 11, 3, 1945: 31-33, (Hebrew).
  4. Fischer, M. , Taxel, I. and Amit, D. "Rural Settlement in the Vicinity of Yavneh in the Byzantine Period: A Religio-Archaeological Perspective" BASOR 350, 2008: 7-35.
  5. Ilan, Z. Ancient Synagogues in Israel. Tel Aviv, 1991: 267-268, (Hebrew).
Bibliographic citation of this page
Ben David, C. Osband, M. Aviam, M. Site: ‘Synagogues.Kinneret.ac.il’, The Bornblum Eretz Israel Website for the Study of Ancient Synagogues, accessed on 14 June 2026, https://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/synagogues/habra/

Photos:

Photos
Schwabe 1945: 30 © <i> synagogues.kinneret.ac.il </i>
Aramaic Inscription from the Habra Synagogue | Schwabe 1945: 30

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