Archaeologists pieced together the menorah fragments from the site.Oleg Deripaska Volnoe Delo Foundation
Posted on 08/27/2023 5:43:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The rectangular building, measuring about 70 feet by 20 feet, was composed of two rooms, each about 650 square feet, the Oleg Deripaska's Volnoe Delo Foundation said. It was destroyed in the middle of the sixth century when tribes attacked and burned down the city. The synagogue also offers experts insight into Judaism practice during the religion's "Second Temple Period," experts with the foundation said. From 516 B.C. until 70 A.D., most Jewish rituals took place at the second Jerusalem Temple, so it was rare for synagogues to be built elsewhere. Kuban is in southeast Russia, bordering the Black Sea.
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Archaeologists pieced together the menorah fragments from the site.Oleg Deripaska Volnoe Delo Foundation
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>> From 516 B.C. until 70 A.D., most Jewish rituals took place at the second Jerusalem Temple <<
So we’re just going to deny the existence of the Hellenic Jews?
Until the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD, there wasn't a big buildout of synagogues, but the Diaspora didn't start then. Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed the First Temple, and before that the Assyrians kicked the ten tribes out onto the frontiers of their empire, which ultimately is how this particular synagogue (as well as Ashkenazi Jews overall) came to be.
There was a synagogue in Capernaum in Jesus’ day (Mark 1.21).
The ruins of that building are still there.
Cool find, but synagogue Judaism didn’t start with the destruction of Herod’s Temple (which is still called the Second Temple for reasons I don’t understand). Jesus taught in “the synagogues” of Galilee even before the famous incident in the Nazareth synagogue. For Pete’s sake, a Roman centurion built a synagogue in this period.
Yes, Hellenic Jews did regard the Temple as the center of Jewish worship, but Catholics believe the Vatican is the center of the Catholic Church; thet doesn’t mean the MAJORITY of religious rituals take place there. Most important =/= majority.
You should look a bit closer at the history. The Bible is very clear on what rites were performed in the Temple and only in the Temple.
Apparently, it’s the word, “majority” that you’re hung up on.
OK, then here’s a simple historical fact: There were DOZENS of synagogues at the time of Christ. I know some people (Kee, etc.) have tried to deny the existence of these synagogues, insisting that their presence in the New Testament is anachronistic. That’s was an unreasonable assertion in the 1990s when Kee made it, and has been easily refuted by the discovery of many of these synagogues since then.
This is in addition to the Samaritan synagogues, and the fact that the Jews in Christ’s time in diaspora regular refer to houses of prayer using the same Greek word used for Samaritan synagogues suggest that Jews in diaspora likely had synagogues similar to the Samaritans. (If they disparaged the Samaritan synagogues, why would they use the same name for their own?) So it’s reasonable to assume there were synagogues in literally every Jewish settlement across the entire Hellenic world (see Mordecai Aviam, for instance).
So yeah, the entire issue is created by Jews and anti-skeptics to cast doubt on both Christian scripture and the authenticity of Christian worship, but is a complete and utter deliberate, indefensible lie.
And that’s why I noted that this mainstream publication was siding with indefensible bigotry in the way it worded things, in spite of the fact that the news item they were covering is added proof of that the claims are incontrovertably nonsensical and ideological deceit.
Oleg Deripaska, John McCain and Rick Davis patron. Deripaska hit with sanctions during Trump Administration over eastern Ukraine. Convoluted story.
Synagogues were not churches. During the Second Temple period they were meeting places, places of study and Torah reading. After the destruction of the Second Temple they gradually became places of meeting, study and ceremony. During Christs time they were not ceremonial places. As a I said the oldest KNOWN synagogue was in use 30-50 years before the birth of Christ. Jews in Babylon, Alexandria and throughout the Roman Empire, during the Second Temple period, certainly celebrated Holy Days, read and studied Torah in their Synagogues. But there was only one Temple and it was the only place that rituals outlined in the Old Testament took place.
Synagogues were not churches. During the Second Temple period they were meeting places, places of study and Torah reading. After the destruction of the Second Temple they gradually became places of meeting, study and ceremony. During Christs time they were not ceremonial places. As a I said the oldest KNOWN synagogue was in use 30-50 years before the birth of Christ. Jews in Babylon, Alexandria and throughout the Roman Empire, during the Second Temple period, certainly celebrated Holy Days, read and studied Torah in their Synagogues. But there was only one Temple and it was the only place that rituals outlined in the Old Testament took place.
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>> Synagogues were not churches. <<
No shit, Sherlock. I’m done with you and your condescension.
I think where you are misunderstanding (or disagreeing) is what is a “ritual”, and it’s due to the nature of Judaism since the Romans destroyed the Temple.
You are interpreting “ritual” broadly. If, for example, one considers every bris a “ritual”, then, sure numerically, many more “rituals” have always been held outside the Temple.
If you are interpreting “ritual” in the more traditional fashion to mean the Aaronic duties of Passover sacrifice and the like, then, no, Jerusalem has always been the center.
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