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THE HEBREW INSCRIPTIONS FROM SARDIS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2002

Frank Moore Cross
Frank Moore Cross
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Harvard University
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The inscriptions in Hebrew found in the Sardis Synagogue are few and fragmentary in comparison with the rich deposit of Greek inscriptions. One may compare the coeval synagogue in Hammath-Tiberias with its similar proportion of Greek and Hebrew inscriptions—despite its Palestinian locale. The Hebrew inscriptions were found, save one, in the Synagogue near the southern shrine in the east side of the Main Hall, and originally, no doubt, were built into or attached to the walls of the Synagogue.See A. R. Seager, “The Building History of the Sardis Synagogue,” AJA 76 (1972) 432–33. The inscription from outside the Synagogue, the graffito of Shemaryah, was found in a fill north of the Expedition camp.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 95 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 3 - 19
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

* This article was completed and submitted for publication in its present form on November 1, 1994. It is published here in advance of its official publication with the permission of the Publications Committee, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis. Images are reproduced with permission, ©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/Harvard University. The writer has benefited greatly from a preliminary study of these inscriptions by the late Professor Isaac Rabinowitz. Where my readings and interpretations differ substantially from his, my readings are to be found in the text, his in the notes.