Her special interest is iconography - the meaning of the image in its time - and most of her research ... The Crescent on the Temple: The Dome of the Rock as Image of the Ancient Jewish Sanctuary.

An inscribed piece of pottery found in an ancient Jewish stronghold in the Jordan Valley has finally been deciphered. The 2,000-year-old shard was first discovered by archaeologists in the 1980s ...

Jewish ritual images, and Islamicate stucco ornament. We encourage article submissions that offer interdisciplinary, theoretical, or critical perspectives. Works of both established and emerging ...

It sits covered with the geraniums popular in the city’s historic Jewish quarter ... of the most visited countries on the planet. And ancient synagogues can be tourist draws, especially for ...

"Gaza and Judea are an ancient story spanning generations ... the last two thousand years that does not have documentation of Jewish families in Gaza and Jewish trading houses in Gaza." ...

Vandals spray-painted the Hillel building at San Francisco State University with a slogan referencing an ancient battle in which Muslim troops defeated a group of Jewish fighters. The ...