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Posted on 08/03/2025 8:04:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Guardian reports that archaeologists excavating at the ancient Roman settlement of Castulo in southern Spain have identified the traces of a building they believe may have once been a synagogue. Near the location of what scholars had once assumed was a fourth- or fifth-century a.d. Christian basilica, the team found fragments of three oil lamps and a roof tile bearing depictions of menorahs, as well as a jar lid inscribed with Hebrew characters. When the researchers reconsidered the identification of the nearby structure as a place of early Christian worship, they found that many features of the building matched the layout of contemporary synagogues, and noted that it was located near the ruins of a Roman bathhouse. They doubt the local Christian clergy would have sanctioned building a place of worship so near to a structure so closely identified with pagan practices. "The Roman baths were the last pagan place that remained in a city," said archaeologist Bautista Ceprián. "It was something diabolical and therefore something that had to be outside the Christian world." If the team's interpretation is confirmed, the synagogue at Castulo would be among the oldest ever discovered in Spain. To read about the collapse of the Roman Empire in the Iberian peninsula, go to "The Visigoths' Imperial Ambitions."
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“Hey, Torqemada, what do you say ?
Have any of those Jews confessed today?
Not a one. Nay, nay, nay”
What, the Guardian didn’t assist the religion of hate, rape, misogyny and lying to desecrate the site?
Well I didnt expect the Spanish Inquisition....
Hey, give ‘em time.
Who does? Lol
Probably since Jews were tolerated under Moorish rule.
So funny...😁
It’s better to lose your skullcap than your skull....Oy Gewalt!
send in the nuns!
I heard AOC’s ancestors were protesting the synagogue, too. They hate them, like AOC does...
The first Moors did, but not the later ones, the more "religious" ones who defeated the Moors and took over Spain. They declared "Allah, or the sword," and beheaded any Jew who refused to convert, and burned hundreds of Jewish schools and synagogues to the ground. The most famous of all Jewish philosophers, Maimonides, and his family had to flee Spain for Morocco to escape them.
Someone found an Irving nametag and remnants of Lox and Bagels?
I’m not arguing Jews and Christians were not at the bottom of the social order but the Muslims armies would still have been seen as liberators from very severe persecution, even slavery, that existed under the Visigoths. We also don’t know when this particular Jewish community was disbanded/expelled although I’m assuming without further record it was under Christian rule at the end of the Roman era.
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