• The ceiling was believed to have been created between 244 CE and 245 CE; it was part of the retransformation from which the Dura-Europos synagogue derived.
  • The synagogue discovered in Dura Europos in 1932/1933 shocked archaeologists, scholars of ancient Syria, and students of ancient Jewish history.
  • There was a Jewish synagogue in Dura-Europos that was best preserved from many ancient synagogues of that era that have been uncovered by archeologists.
  • Model of the western wall of a Dura-Europos Synagogue with view of its narrative wall paintings and Torah shrine as it may have appeared between 244 and 256...
  • The pictorial sequence in the Dura-Europos synagogue is surprising to many scholars, given the prohibition against figural imagery in the Jewish tradition.
  • The figurative decorations of the synagogue in Dura Europos have aroused questions about their significance and reading strategy.
  • Dura-Europos Synagogue is an ancient ruined synagogue located in the ancient city of Dura-Europos on the west bank of the Euphrates River in Deir ez-Zor...
  • Discovery of a 3rd-century C.E. synagogue at the ancient site now known as Dura-Europos (in modern Syria) in 1932/1933 shocked the scholarly world.
  • Fresco of Moses and the Exodus, from the Dura Europos synagogue. ... Near to the Christian Church at Dura Europos was the Synagogue.
  • This was the purpose of paintings in the Dura Europos synagogue. Therefore, we can see how religion influenced lives of Jewish through arts.
  • The western wall of the ancient synagogue in Dura Europos (245 C.E.) is covered with a series of wall paintings depicting the story of Moses.
  • ...the earliest surviving biblical narrative cycle, the frescoed façade of the Dura Europos synagogue, which was uncovered by archeologists in 1935 in Syria.