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Comments: Interior of Nazareth village house A
Credit: Ian Scott
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Comments: Exterior of Reconstructed First-Century Synagogue. This building at the Nazareth Village living museum is built on a relatively steep slope, so it is set into the hill, with the rear wall being dug out of the bedrock limestone. This appears to have been common in the communities of the highland regions (like the Nazareth ridge) of Galilee and Judea. Notice, too, the flat roof and clerestory windows around a raised central portion of the ceiling. The front entrance to the synagogue is hidden at the right-hand end of the building.
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Comments: Mamshit. The Palace Courtyard at Mampsis 2. The ground floor of a wealthy private house in ancient Mampsis (Mamshit or Kurnub). Notice the arched vaulting that supported the second-storey above the alcoves and secondary halls. This main central courtyard was lined with pillars whose bases still survive (along the wall at left). Light was allowed into secondary rooms through abundant windows (two are visible at right). This was a key Nabatean town located on the trade route that ran overland south of the Dead Sea and through the Arabian desert. Mampsis was a key junction point where this caravan route met the north-south routes into Judea and was also a crucial stop-over on the way West toward Egypt. The city survived into the Byzantine period before trade patterns changed and the settlement was abandoned. Since the site was never re-occupied after the Byzantine era, its remains are remarkably well-preserved.
From Easton: Window - properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or closed (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9). The spies in Jericho and Paul at Damascus were let down from the windows of houses abutting on the town wall (Joshua 2:15; 2 Corinthians 11:33). The clouds are metaphorically called the "windows of heaven" (Genesis 7:11; Malachi 3:10). The word thus rendered in Isaiah 54:12 ought rather to be rendered "battlements" (LXX., "bulwarks;" R.V., "pinnacles"), or as Gesenius renders it, "notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun"= having a radiated appearance like the sun.
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