( R) May the Lord show you kindness, ( S) as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands ( T) and to me. 7 With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.Ĩ Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. Naomi and Ruth Return to BethlehemĦ When Naomi heard in Moab ( N) that the Lord had come to the aid of his people ( O) by providing food ( P) for them, she and her daughters-in-law ( Q) prepared to return home from there. ( K) After they had lived there about ten years, 5 both Mahlon and Kilion ( L) also died, ( M) and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband. 4 They married Moabite women, ( J) one named Orpah and the other Ruth. And they went to Moab and lived there.ģ Now Elimelek, Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. ( G) They were Ephrathites ( H) from Bethlehem, ( I) Judah. ( E) 2 The man’s name was Elimelek, ( F) his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. ( B) So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, ( C) together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while ( D) in the country of Moab. The site is being handed over to the Israeli Antiquities Authority and the Jewish National Fund which plan to transform it into a unique tourist attraction.1 In the days when the judges ruled, ( A) there was a famine in the land. The one built over it is the only known synagogue from the Mamluk Period uncovered in Israel. Architecturally, the original synagogue is similar to the one at Capernaum. The excavations show that Huqoq was growing throughout the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries, and the size of the mosaic means it was a fairly prosperous village, Professor Magness explained. My impression from the archaeology was always exactly the opposite, that the settlements continued to prosper and flourish.”
“Many of my Israeli colleagues think that Christian rule was oppressive to the Jews and that these early Jewish settlements declined, and some even disappeared. The Times Of Israel reports Professor Magness concedes the mosaics were an accidental discovery after she was originally drawn to the site for very different reasons that focused on the impact of early Christian rule, and what happened to Jewish villages as Christianity became more widespread. “There is no other synagogue like this anywhere in Israel that has so many different mosaics with so many different Biblical themes and parallels,” said Professor Magness, adding that while “the mosaics get the publicity, we have huge quantities of other artifacts, including pottery, coins, boxes of animal bones, and glass fragments” The building itself features unique architecture including columns still retaining some of their original, colourful plaster paintings.
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Numerous animals are featured such as a tiger hunting an ibex, plus lions and bulls.“ Also illustrated are Noah’s Ark, the Tower of Babel, the splitting of the Red Sea, Moses’s spies in Canaan, the oasis of Elim from Exodus and Jonah being swallowed by a fish. The incredibly well-preserved depictions include scenes from the Book of Judges such as Samson with foxes and carrying the Gaza gate, judge Deborah and Kenite woman Yael killing Canaanite general Sisera. The Times Of Israel writes that the entire 20×14 metre floor is covered in vibrant mosaics illustrating Biblical scenes and ornate designs from the period. This year the team finished its dig on the interior of the Late Roman synagogue and the Mamluk synagogue from the 14th century that was built on top of it. Professor Jodi Magness, an archaeologist and professor of early Judaism at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, has been excavating the site every northern summer since 2011, except for two years during the pandemic, supported by an international team of experts, students, and volunteers.
A Roman-era mosaic portraying multiple Biblical characters and stories has been unearthed in the ruins of a 1,600-year-old synagogue at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee region.
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