Naaran

Religion: Jewish

Archaeological Evidences:

Period: Late Roman and/or Byzantine

Excavation: Excavated

Excavators: Louis Hugues Vincent (1921)

Main Finds: Columns, mosaic with zodiac, Menorah and other images. Hebrew and Aramiac inscriptions. Site damaged in iconoclasmic attack.

Inscriptions: Aramiac and Hebrew (Naveh 1978: 93-102, Werlin 2015: 36-56, CIIP IV/Part 1: 133-149).

Mosaics: Yes

Site Condition: Open to public. Under Palestinian Authority control.

Geographic Details

Geographical Region: Judea

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Selected Bibliography:

Selected Bibliography

Noga-Banai, G. "Blessed is the one who waits, and arrives: Or, What Does Daniel in the Lions' Den Have to Do with a Burial Cave in the Western Galilee and the Synagogue in Naaran?" in A Vision of the Days: Studies in Early Jewish History and Historiography in Honor of Daniel R. Schwartz. ed. R. Brody et. al., Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Vol. 213, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2024: 726-743, (Hebrew).
Yardeni, A. and Price, J. J. "Na῾aran (Noorath, mod. ῾Ein ed-Duq, ῾Ein Duyuk)" in Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. ed. W. Ameling et. al., IV/Part 1: Iudaea / Idumaea, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2018: 133-149.
Ariotti, A. "A Missing Piece Found: Tracing the History of a Mosaic Fragment at the Church of Saint James from Jericho to Sydney and Back Again" Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 22, 2004: 1-22.
Avi Yonah, M. "Naaran" The New Encyclopedia of Archeological Excavations in the Holy Land. 1993: 1075-1076.
Spigel, C.S. Ancient Synagogue Seating Capacities. Tubingen, 2012: 281-285.
Werlin, S. The Late Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine. Leiden, 2015: 29-69.

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 23 June 2025, https://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/synagogues/naaran/

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