Marshaling a wide variety of literary and archaeological sources dating to the Greco-Roman period, Steven Fine demonstrates how the synagogue came to be seen as sacred, rather than simply as houses of study. Fine argues that the biblical scrolls read, studied, and stored within its walls were the most important source of synagogue sanctity in the minds of the ancients, for the Scriptures offered the physical manifestation of the Divine within local congregations.
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Marshaling a wide variety of literary and archaeological sources dating to the Greco-Roman period, Steven Fine demonstrates how the synagogue came to be seen as sacred, rather than simply as houses of study. Fine argues that the biblical scrolls read, studied, and stored within its walls were the most important source of synagogue sanctity in the minds of the ancients, for the Scriptures offered the physical manifestation of the Divine within local congregations.
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