The Messianic theme in the painting of the Dura synagogue

by Rachel Wischnitzer

1948 135 pages eng

"The paintings of the Dura-Europos synagogue, excavated in 1932, are the earliest known pictorial representations, of this scope, of biblical scenes. Although a number of he thirty panels have been interpreted, a few among them have until now defied explanation. The author here offers a complete int…