4.3 From the Temple to the Synagogue

Dates:

1. First Temple ca. 950 BCE (des 587 BCE)
2. Second Temple ca 535 BCE (Expansion of #2 - ca. 40BCE)
3. Destruction 70 CE

a Temple without Idols - aniconic

Synagogues

1. as a Bet Midrash (House of Study)
2. as a Bet Haknesset (House of Gathering)
3. Dura Europos (destroyed 256 CE)

Torah (5 books of Moses)

Bima and Ark