Jewish artists illustrated Biblical episodes, painting murals for their synagogue, 1,700 years ago according to discoveries announced here by Dr. Carl H. Kraelig, an archaeologist formerly on the faculty of Yale University.
Dr. Kaelig’s report, to be published next month by the Yale University Press, tells of 59 Biblical episodes found illustrated in the ruins of a 1700-year-old temple first discovered in Syria in 1921. According to the archaeologist, the scenes depicted seem to have been copied from illustrated Greek translations, of the Bible, rather than from original Hebrew works. The scenes shown in the paintings follow closely the Biblical text, the scientist declared.
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