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Other Name: Baram North, Bar’am North, Baram Lower
Religion: Jewish

Archaeological Evidences:

Period: Late Roman and/or Byzantine
Excavation: Excavated
Excavators: Charles Wilson (1866), Mordechai Aviam (1998)
Main Finds: Main entrance with a decorated and inscribed lintel. Aramaic amulet
Inscriptions: Hebrew (Naveh 1978: 19-20, CIIP V/1: 155-156), Aramaic (CIIP V/1: 157-159)
Site Condition: National park, free entrance
General view to South West, Kohl and Watzinger 1916: 91

Geographic Details

Geographical Region: Upper Galilee
8967, ישראל

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Selected Bibliography:

Selected Bibliography
  1. Price, J. J. and Yardeni, A. "Barʿam" in Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. ed. W. Ameling et. al., V/Part 1: Galilaea and Northern Regions, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2023: 155-159.
  2. Aviam, M. "The Ancient Synagogues at Bar'am" in Ancient Synagogues Revealed: 1981-2022. ed. L. I. Levine, Z. Weiss, U. Leibner, Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 2023: 3-10.
  3. Naveh, J. On Stone and Mosaic: the Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues. Tel Aviv, Israel Exploration Society, 1978: 19-20, (Hebrew).
  4. Naveh, J. "An Aramaic amulet from Bar'am" in Judaism in Late Antiquity III; Where we Stand: issues and debates in Ancient Judaism. ed. A.J. Avery-Peck and J. Neusner, Vol. 4: The Special Problems of the Synagogue, Leiden, 2001: 179-186.
  5. Aviam, M. "The Ancient Synagogues at Bar’am" in Judaism in Late Antiquity. Where we Stand: Issues and Debates in Ancient Judaism. The Special Problem of the Synagogues. ed. A. J. Avery-Peck and J. Neusner, part 3 volume 4, Leiden, Brill, 2001: 155-173.
  6. Kohl, H. and Watzinger, C. Antike Synagogen in Galilaea. Leipzig, 1916: 89-91.
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 21 June 2025, https://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/synagogues/baram-small/

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Aramaic amulet, Aviam 2002:184 © <i> synagogues.kinneret.ac.il </i>
Aramaic amulet, Aviam 2002:184
General view to South West, Kohl and Watzinger 1916: 91 © <i> synagogues.kinneret.ac.il </i>
General view to South West, Kohl and Watzinger 1916: 91
Main entrance looking North, Kohl and Watzinger 1916: 90 © <i> synagogues.kinneret.ac.il </i>
Main entrance looking North, Kohl and Watzinger 1916: 90

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