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- W617038903 abstract "The city known to Persians as Dura, to Romans as Europos, and to us as Dura Europos, stands silent on a bluff overlooking the Euphrates River in modern Syria. The exquisite synagogue of Dura Europos was completed in 244/5 CE. Preserved as a result of the destruction of the Roman city by Persian armies in around 256, it was discovered by French and American archaeologists in 1932 and reconstructed in the National Museum in Damascus, where it may be viewed to this day. Jews who spoke Persian, Aramaic and Greek all left their mark on this structure. It is known for its unique wall paintings, which have been compared with the Dead Sea Scrolls in terms of their importance to the history of Judaism. Here we have a synagogue where midrash is literally projected onto the walls in a most pleasing manner. Not only that, this is a synagogue where Hebrew prayer reminiscent of rabbinic prayer was pronounced and an Aramaic paraphrase of the Torah (Targum) apparently was known (on liturgy in the Dura Europos synagogue see my Art and Judaism during the Greco-Roman Period, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication society, forthcoming). Dura is thus a pivotal document for understanding ancient Judaism, which includes the rabbinic Sages. Among the most interesting images at Dura is the Daughter of Pharaoh drawing baby Moses from the sea. Particularly striking to the modern sense of Judaism is the fact that she is frontally nude. The Daughter of Pharoah is not the only nude figure in the Dura synagogue. In one image, a nude male figure appears on a monumental door of the Temple compound! Scholars have debated why the Daughter of Pharaoh is presented nude. Some have argued that her nudity is reflective of the fact that she was not Jewish a point that can be neither proved nor disproved. Others see in" @default.
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- W617038903 title "Note on the Cover Illustration: The Daughter of Pharoah at Dura Europos" @default.
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