Sample Sources
The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
Samaria-Sebaste Basilica
Herod’s Roman-style forum, on the eastern side of Samaria-Sebaste, featured a basilica: a large public building used for judicial proceedings, commerce, and other communal functions. Basilicas…
Alexander the Great Sarcophagus
This sarcophagus was discovered in the late nineteenth century during excavations in Lebanon close to the Phoenician city of Sidon. It depicts Alexander and his soldiers in combat. The sarcophagus was…
Genesis Apocryphon Scroll
This scroll, found in Cave 1 at Qumran, contains the text of the Genesis Apocryphon, an Aramaic retelling of narratives from Genesis. The genre of rewritten Bible was popular among Jewish authors in…
Mosaic Floor, Naaran, Jordan
This panel from the mosaic floor in the synagogue at Naaran, in the Jordan Valley, depicts the ark flanked by two symmetrical seven-armed menorahs, from which two lamps are hanging. Below this is a…
Babatha’s Ketubah
Ketubah of Babatha and Judah, ca. 125 CE. Photo: Shai Halevi, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Reconstruction of Herod’s Temple Mount
Reconstruction of Herod’s Temple Mount, 1:100 scale, by Alec Garrard. © Geoff Robinson Photography.
Ḥammat Gader Synagogue Chancel Screen
Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by Avraham Hay.