CNN13 天
Discovery of ritual bath sheds light on Jewish life in ancient Rome
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PBS3 个月
In the first century AD, Jews lived across the Roman Empire in relative harmony.
Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.
The New York Times15 天
Archaeologists Unearth Oldest Jewish Ritual Bath Found in Europe
Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...