SEE THE PROGRAM FOR LECTURES ON ANCIENT SYNAGOGUES
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
THE WEEK OF AUGUST 6
http://www.jewish-studies.org/wcjsprogram_en
208 New Discoveries of First- and Second Century-Synagogues in the Land of Israel I
Wednesday, 09 August, 2017 15:00-17:00, Room: 2503
Chairperson: Chaim Ben David
Dina Avshalom Gorni (H)
The Development of the Synagogue from the Second Temple Period in Migdal
Mordechai Aviam (E)
A First–Second-Century Privat Synagogue on Top of Tel Rekhesh, Lower Galilee
Binyamin Har-Even (E)
Horbat Diab: A Second Temple-Era Rural Synagogue in Western Benjamin
Tom McCollough (E)
The Early Roman Synagogue at Khirbet Qana
209 New Discoveries of First and Second-Century Synagogues in the Land of Israel II
Wednesday, 09 August, 2017 17:30-19:30, Room: 2503
Chairperson: Mordechai Aviam
James Riley Strange (E)
A Second–Third-Century Synagogue at Shikhin
Mechael Osband (H)
The Excavation of an Ancient Synagogue at Khirbet Majduliyya
Uzi Leibner (H)
Invisible Synagogues of the Second Temple Period
614 Synagogues: Art in a Ritual Space
Thursday, 10 August, 2017 15:00-17:00, Room: 2716
Chairperson: Rudolf Klein
Lidia Chakovskaya (E)
The Artistic Milieu of the Mosaics of the Beth Alpha Synagogue
Sergey Kravtsov (E)
The Iconographic Study of Synagogue Architecture
Mirko Przystawik (E)
An Architectural Approach to Nineteenth Century Torah Ark Design in Germany
Svetlana Tarkhanova (E)
The Classical Morphology under Late Antique Pressure: Pseudo-Ionic Capitals in
Synagogues and Churches of the Northern Land of Israel (Sub-Roman or Sub-Byzantine
Style)