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ix Illustrations Fig. 1 The Bar‘am Synagogue, Galilee, late fourth century c.e. Photograph by Anders Runesson. Fig. 2 Sunrise at Mount Sinai, Egypt. Photograph by Anders Runesson. Fig. 3 The Babylonian Rabbinic Academies. Map by Magnus Zetterholm. Fig. 4 Page of the Babylonian Talmud, Vilna Edition (tractate Taanit 10a). Photograph by the Royal Library, Copenhagen. Used by permission. Fig. 5 Details of a Page from the Biblia Hebraica. Photograph by Anders Runesson. Fig. 6 Floor Mosaic from the Bet Alpha Synagogue, Israel. Fig. 7 The Sea of Galilee. Photograph by Anders Runesson. Fig. 8 Acropolis of Ancient Corinth. Photograph by Dieter Mitternacht. Fig. 9 The Synagogue in Malmö, Sweden, built in 1903. Photograph by Stefan Hedner. Fig. 10 Interior of the Hurva Synagogue, the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, Jerusalem. Photograph by Anders Runesson. ...

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