THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18 Friday, Dec 14, 1973
New Hospital to Open in Natanya Dura-Europos Archeological Finds
new
American hospital will open
in Natanya on the Mediter-
ranean shore between Tel
Aviv and Haifa.
Sidney Greenwald, chair-
man of the American Friends
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concealing how much we
think of ourselves and how
little we think of the other
person.—Mark Twain.
Defined in Gutmann-Edited Volume
Archeology is fascinating
more and more people in the
course of many discoveries
that have fascinated histor-
ians. A subect that has in-
trigued many as a result of
excavations that were con-
ducted more than 40 years
ago are the findings of the
Dura - Europos Synagogue.
Thanks to a Detroit scholar,
the Dura-Europos story is
available in important eval-
uations in a new volume pub-
lished by the American Acad-
emy of Religion Society of
Biblical Literature.
Prof. Joseph Gutmann of
Wayne State University's de-
partment of art history,
provides a history of the ex-
cavations that brought to
light the art of the ancient
synagogue in his own essays
and those of other scholars
in "The Dura-Europos Syna-
gogue: A Re - Evaluation
(1932-1972)."
Well illustrated, thorough-
ly annotated, this American
Academy of Religion volume
contains seven essays — one
by Dr. Gutmann — and Dr.
Gutmann's explanatory pref-
ace, and 17 important photo-
graphs to add emphasis to
of Scripture."
Wayne State University
Prof. Bernard Goldman con-
tributed an essay on "The
Dura Synagogue Costumes
and Parthian Art" in which
he suggests that "the syna-
gogue artists were skillful,
admittedly, more adept at
organizing and projecting
among many scholars whose
views are quoted in this vol-
ume, Dr. Gutmann adds that
"the Dura paintings have re-
opened an older debate in
art historic-al circles—whether
indeed the origins of Christian
art may be rooted in an ante-
cedent, but now lost, Jewish
art."
It was under the chairman-
ship of Clark Hopkins, field
director of the Dura excava-
tions, examined the problems
outlined by Dr. Gutmann,
and Dr. Hopkins' essay, de-
scribing the excavations, is
the first in this new volume.
In it a full account is given
of the searches that were
conducted by Yale Univer-
sity and the French Academy
of Inscriptions and Letters,
in January 1932, in the
French territory then man-
dated by the San Remo treaty
of 1920.
Dr. Gutmann's article
deals with "Programmatic
Painting in the Dura. It adds
to the search for details re-
garding the services that
were conducted in the 3rd
Century synagogue. It traces
the hymns that were used, as
well as the manner in which
the Torah and the ark were
revered. Dr. Gutmann states:
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the importance of the subject
defined by the participating
scholars.
Prof. Gutmann explains in
his essay that: "Discovered
40 years ago in what Mikhail
Rostovzeff called 'The Pom-
ii of the Syrian Desert,'
the 3rd Century Dura-Eur-
opos synagogue has success-
fully challenged stereotyped
and well-established scholar-
ly theories." He states that
this synagogue has "revolu-
tionary implications to all
students of ancient history,"
as "the first major Jewish
artistic monument ever to be
unearthed" that contained
"the earliest known signifi-
cant continuous cycle of bib-
lical images."
Describing the deep inter-
est aroused by the findings
the fu ► ly vn-ctosed mail
—
"The prophetic or patri-
archal biblical figures above
the Torah shrine and flanking
the Tabernacle/Temple—one
at prayer and the other read-
ing of revealing Scripture—
are present as biblical proofs
of the two basic components
of synagogue worship, reci-
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Dura Paintings: A Critique;"
Prof. Richard Brilliant,
"Painting at Dura-Europos
and Roman Art;" Prof. Mary
Lee Thompson, "Hypotheti-
cal Models of the Dura Paint-
ings;" Prof. Andrew Seager,
"The Architecture of the
Dura and Sardis Synagogues.
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