Steven Fine: “Jews, Samaritans, and the Art of the Ancient Synagogue”

Steven Fine is Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University and the Director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies. His research focuses on the literature, art, and archaeology of ancient Judaism. He is the author of several books including This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue during the Greco-Roman Period (University of Notre Dame Press 1997), Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge 2005), Art History and the Historiography of Judaism in the Greco-Roman World (Brill 2013), and The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard University Press 2016). This lecture is sponsored by a Sherl K. Coleman-Margaret E. Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities from the Oregon Humanities Center and is part of the Spring 2022 Ancient Jewish Art and Architecture Lecture Series.