Selebi; Selbit; Sha῾albim Complete

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Roughly 3.5 km north of Emmaus lies the site of Sha’alvim–Salbit, where excavations directed by Eleazar L. Sukenik in the late 1940s uncovered the remains of a Samaritan synagogue. Plan source: Pummer 2016, fig. 9. Further reading: Barag, D. 2009. Samaritan writing and writings, [in:] Hanna M. Cotton, Robert G. Hoyland, J.J. Price and David J. Wasserstein (eds.), From Hellenism to Islam. Cultural and linguistic change in the Roman Near East, 303-323. Pummer, R. 1999. Samaritan Synagoguges and Jewish Synagogues: Similarities and differences [in:] Steven Fine (ed.), Jews, Christians, and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue: Cultural Interaction during the Greco-Roman Period. London and New York, 118-160. Pummer, R. 2016. The Samaritans: A Profile, Cambridge: Eerdmans Publishing. Reich, R. 1994. "The Plan Of The Samaritan Synagogue At Sha'alvim", Israel Exploration Journal 44: 228-233. Sukenik, E.L. 1949. "The Samaritan Synagogue at Salbit", Louis M. Rabinowitz Fund Bulletin I, 1949: 25-30. https://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/synagogues/shaalvim/