Ein Nashut

Ein Neshut is an archaeological site where remains of a Jewish settlement from the Talmudic period and an ancient synagogue were discovered in the center of the Golan Heights.^[1]

Geography

The site is located on a hill 392 meters above sea level, a kilometer and a half north of Katzrin and about a kilometer and a half south of the settlement of Kidmat Tzvi, just above the beginning of the Meshushim River ravine. The site's Arabic name is Khirbet Deir Rahib.

Archeology

Decorated column capital

Remains of the oil press at Ein Nashut

The site was first explored in the 1880s by researcher Gottlieb Schumacher, who suggested that the site contained the remains of an ancient synagogue.^[1]

Excavations in the late 1970s revealed the remains of a synagogue that was built in the 5th century; it was located at the north-western end of the settlement.^[2] The synagogue measured 10 meters by 11 meters synagogue and had benches, columns and decorated capitals and some of them with a nine branched Menorah. On the south side of the building facing Jerusalem remains of a Torah ark was found.^{[citation needed]}

Beside the synagogue, two oil press were also discovered, one of which was used from the 4th century to the 6th century.^[2] Remains of additional synagogues from the same period were also discovered a kilometer and a half to south east in the ruins of Sokho also known as Ahmadiyya, and in the Debia ruins, about three kilometers east of the site.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b "Ancient Synagogues Of The Golan". יד יצחק בן־צבי (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-04-02.
^ ^a ^b אורן זינגבוים ורועי עסיס (2020-05-14). "גיליון 132 לשנת 2020חורבת עין נשוט" [Horvat Ein Nashut]. www.hadashot-esi.org.il (in Hebrew). Israel Antiquities Authority. Retrieved 2024-08-21.

Hanna & David Amit - Sights : Travel with the sources in north of the country, Publication: Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute p. 217 - 221
Dafna & Eran Meir - Synagogues in the Golan Heights, Publication: Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute Jerusalem p. 52 - 63

External links

A tour of the ruins of Ein Nashut (organized 22.08.2016 in the Wayback Machine archive) on the Golan tourism website
Ein Nashut, video on YouTube

[:0-1] "Ancient Synagogues Of The Golan". יד יצחק בן־צבי (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-04-02.

[:1-2] אורן זינגבוים ורועי עסיס (2020-05-14). "גיליון 132 לשנת 2020חורבת עין נשוט" [Horvat Ein Nashut]. www.hadashot-esi.org.il (in Hebrew). Israel Antiquities Authority. Retrieved 2024-08-21.

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