PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ix
3. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION xi
4. CHRONOLOGY xv
5. one INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I: THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYNAGOGUE
7. two ORIGINS 21
8. three PRE-70 JUDAEA 45
9. four THE PRE-70 DIASPORA 81
10. five THE SECOND TEMPLE SYNAGOGUE—ITS ROLE AND FUNCTIONS 135
11. six LATE ROMAN PALESTINE (70–FOURTH CENTURY C.E.) 174
12. seven BYZANTINE PALESTINE 210
13. eight DIASPORA SYNAGOGUES 250
14. PART II: THE SYNAGOGUE AS AN INSTITUTION
15. nine THE BUILDING 313
16. ten THE COMMUNAL DIMENSION 381
17. eleven LEADERSHIP 412
18. twelve THE PATRIARCH (NASI) AND THE SYNAGOGUE 454
19. thirteen THE SAGES AND THE SYNAGOGUE 466
20. fourteen WOMEN IN THE SYNAGOGUE 499
21. fifteen PRIESTS 519
22. sixteen LITURGY 530
23. seventeen ICONOGRAPHY: THE LIMITS OF INTERPRETATION 593
24. eighteen DIACHRONIC AND SYNCHRONIC DIMENSIONS—THE SYNAGOGUE IN CONTEXT 613
25. nineteen EPILOGUE 637
26. GLOSSARY 641
27. ABBREVIATIONS 645
28. BIBLIOGRAPHY 649
29. ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 731
30. SOURCE INDEX 735
31. SUBJECT INDEX 763