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.
Jason’s Tomb
Tomb Graffiti. L. Y. Rahmani, “Jason’s Tomb,” Israel Exploration Journal 17 (1967): pp. 61–100, plate 20. Courtesy Israel Exploration Society.
A Hellenized Moses
This fresco depicting Moses and the burning bush (see Exodus 3:2) comes from the Dura-Europos synagogue in Syria. Moses is depicted in the clothing of a third-century Roman man, his sandals sitting on…
Heliodoros Stela
This inscription is known from two ancient copies, both fragmentary. The first copy, pictured here, comprises five fragments, two of which were acquired on the antiquities market and three of which…
Bar Kokhba Coin
During the Bar Kokhba revolt, a large number of foreign (mostly Roman) coins were overstruck, a symbolically significant act of rebellion in itself. The name Simeon, for Simeon bar Kosibah, appears on…
Scriptorium, Qumran
The presence of plastered benches and inkwells in this part of the Qumran site suggests that it may have been used for writing and copying manuscripts, including the manuscripts found in the caves…
Black Basalt Shrine, Korazim
This sculpture of the conch and pillars surrounding the ark of the covenant in the Temple was found in the synagogue of Korazim. The sculpture was probably part of a shrine that housed Torah scrolls…