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Other Name: Baram North, Bar’am North
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)
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. Kohl, H. and Watzinger, C. Antike Synagogen in Galilaea. Leipzig, 1916: 89-91.
  2. Naveh, J. "An Aramaic amulet from Bar'am" in Judaism in Late Antiquity III; Where we Stand: issues and debates in Ancient Judaism, Vol. 4. The Special Problems of the Synagogue. ed. A.J. Avery-Peck and J. Neusner, Leiden, 2001: 179-186.
  3. Naveh, J. ".An Aramaic amulet from Bar'am" in Judaism in Late Antiquity III; Where we Stand: issues and debates in Ancient Judaism. Vol. 4. The Special Problems of the Synagogue. ed. A.J. Avery-Peck and J. Neusner, Leiden, 2001: 179-186.
  4. 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.
  5. Kohl, H. and Watzinger, C. Antike Synagogen in Galilaea. Leipzig, 1916: 89-91.
  6. Naveh, J. ".An Aramaic amulet from Bar'am" in Judaism in Late Antiquity III; Where we Stand: issues and debates in Ancient Judaism. Vol. 4. The Special Problems of the Synagogue. ed. A.J. Avery-Peck and J. Neusner, Leiden, 2001: 179-186.
Photos
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
Aramaic amulet, Aviam 2002:184 © <i> synagogues.kinneret.ac.il </i>
Aramaic amulet, Aviam 2002:184
Plans
Reconstructed plan, Aviam 2002: Fig.F, Plan 2 © <i> synagogues.kinneret.ac.il </i>
Reconstructed plan, Aviam 2002: Fig.F, Plan 2
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