Cosmological Narrative in the Synagogues of Late Roman-Byzantine Palestine

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" Cosmological Narrative in the Synagogues of Late Roman-Byzantine Palestine "
Erickson, Bradley Charles Magness, Jodi

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1106941
Doc. No	:	TLpq2421528169
Main Entry	:	Erickson, Bradley Charles
	:	Magness, Jodi
Title & Author	:	Cosmological Narrative in the Synagogues of Late Roman-Byzantine Palestine\ Erickson, Bradley CharlesMagness, Jodi
College	:	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date	:	2020
student score	:	2020
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	319
Abstract	:	The night sky provided ancient peoples with a visible framework through which they could view and experience the divine. Ancient astronomers looked to the night sky for practical reasons, such as the construction of calendars by which time could evenly be divided, and for prognosis, such as the foretelling of future events based on the movements of the planets and stars. While scholars have written much about the Greco-Roman understanding of the night sky, few studies exist that examine Jewish cosmological thought in relation to the appearance of the Late Roman-Byzantine synagogue Helios-zodiac cycle. This dissertation surveys the ways that ancient Jews experienced the night sky, including literature of the Second Temple (sixth century BCE – 70 CE), rabbinic and mystical writings, and Helios-zodiac cycles in synagogues of ancient Palestine. I argue that Judaism joined an evolving Greco-Roman cosmology with ancient Jewish traditions as a means of producing knowledge of the earthly and heavenly realms.
Subject	:	Archaeology
	:	Classical studies
	:	Judaic studies