Footnote 3 – Helios in the Synagogue

A genizah is a repository in a synagogue for worn-out holy texts. The most famous genizah is the Cairo Genizah, which contained about 140,000 manuscripts, secular as well as holy. See Raphael Levy, “First ‘Dead Sea Scroll’ Found in Egypt Fifty Years Before Qumran Discoveries,” BAR 08:05.