Hebrew Inscription on Lintel from Baram, Upper Galilee
May peace be in this place and all the places of Israel. Yosi the Levite, son of Levi, made this lintel. May blessing come through his deeds. Shalom.
Translated by Lee I. Levine.
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Hebrew Inscription on Lintel from Baram, Upper Galilee, trans. Lee I. Levine, from Lee I. Levine, The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years, 2nd ed (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), p. 336. Chapter originally published in Hebrew in Lee I. Levine, “The Interior of the Ancient Synagogue and Its Furnishings: From Communal Center to ‘Lesser Sanctuary,’” Cathedra, vol. 60 (1990), pp. 36–84. Hebrew inscription from J. Naveh, On Stone and Mosaic: The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues, no. 1 (Jerusalem: Israel Society and Carta, 1978).
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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