Aramaic Inscription on Stone from Ḥorvat ha-‘Amudim, Lower Galilee
Yo‘ezer the ḥazzan and Simeon his brother made this gate of the Lord of Heaven.
Translated by Nahman Avigad.
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Aramaic Inscription on Stone from Ḥorvat ha-‘Amudim, Lower Galilee, trans. Nahman Avigad, in Nahman Avigad, “An Aramaic Inscription from the Synagogue at Umm-el-‘Amed in Galilee,” Bulletin of the Louis Rabinowitz Fund for the Exploration of Ancient Synagogues, vol. 3 (1960): pp. 62–64. Used with permission of Israel Exploration Society.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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