Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Common Judaism and the synagogue in the first century; 2 Was the synagogue a place of sabbath worship before 70 CE?; 3 The early history of public reading of the Torah; 4 The Rabbis and the non-existent monolithic synagogue; 5 Art in the synagogue: some Talmudic views; 6 The Patriarchate and the ancient synagogue; 7 Sage, priest, and poet: typologies of religious leadership in the ancient synagogue
Summary
Explores the ways in which divergent ethnic, national and religious communities interacted with one another within the synagogue during the Greco-Roman period
