Author: SHANKS, HAROLD & YADIN, YIGAEL
Title: Judaism in Stone: The Archaeology of Ancient Synagogues
Description: New York: Harper & Row, Biblical Archaeology Society, 1979. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060672188. Color & b/w & maps; 8 3/4 x 11 1/4"; 192 pages; Hard cover is blue with gold lettering on spine. Light rubbing, bumping to boards. DJ has some rubbing, scuffing, edgewear. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Lavishly illustrated with color and b/w pictures and maps. "These discoveries shed a new and often surprising light on Jewish history. No one ever expected to find a naked woman on the holiest wall of a synagogue or a Greek god on the floor. But the excavators also found Torah arks, bemas, menorahs, shofar mosaics, coin hoards school rooms and hundreds of inscriptions commemorating gifts to to synagogues..." Notes, index.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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