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February 1, 2016

Ancient Tombstones Shed Light on Rabbinic Life in the Galilee

Two in Aramaic, one in Greek.

In the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, the Galilean city of Sepphoris (Tsippori) was one of the most important centers of Jewish religious and intellectual life. Archaeologists have recently discovered three 1,700-year-old tombstones there, as the Israel Antiquities Authority reports:

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