The “Elephant Mosaic” Panel from the Huqoq Synagogue: Ehud Ben Gera in Jewish-Galilean Traditions
Abstract The so-called Elephant Mosaic panel from the Huqoq synagogue floor has sparked intense scholarly debate regarding its interpretation. This article proposes a biblical episode as its topic: the killing of the Moabite king Eglon by Ehud ben Gera (Judges 3). Reading the panels as a unified com...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2021, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, Pages: 257-278 |
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Byzantine Jewish art
B Galilean Jewish communities B pictorial and written traditions B late antique synagogues B rabbinic sages B Megillat Antiochus B Elephant mosaic |
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