Footnote 2 – Did the Synagogue Replace the Temple?

A genizah is a place, usually attached to a synagogue, where objects bearing the name of God are stored when they become unusable. According to Jewish law, such articles may never be destroyed; hence the genizahs of some synagogues contained large collections of manuscripts. See Raphael Levy, “First ‘Dead Sea Scroll’ Found in Egypt Fifty Years Before Qumran Discoveries,” BAR 08:05.