Jerusalem Flourishing—A Craft Center for Stone, Pottery, and Glass

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If Jerusalem is famous for one thing, it is for being a religious center. But our interest in the Holy Cities lies also in its everyday life, of which so little is known. Recent investigations revealed that in ancient times, especially in the late Second Temple period (50 B.C.–70 A.D.), various arts and crafts, such as stonework, painted pottery and glass industry, flourished in Jerusalem. To understand these crafts is to add a new dimension to our understanding of life in the Holy City. From these crafts we learn about the world of the craftspeople who produced the artifacts, about […]

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An ossuary is a rectangular box with a lid, usually hewn out of limestone, which was used as a depository for secondary burial of a deceased person’s bones.

The Mishnah is the body of Jewish oral law, specifically, the collection of oral laws compiled by Rabbi Judah the Prince in the second century.