[SunkenCiv]

Archaeologists pieced together the menorah fragments from the site.

Oleg Deripaska Volnoe Delo Foundation

[dangus]

>> 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?

[Verginius Rufus]

There was a synagogue in Capernaum in Jesus’ day (Mark 1.21).

[Burma Jones]

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.

[gitmo]

Wow.