Images of culture in public cult buildings : a study of the archaeological remains of late Roman and early Byzantine synagogues and churches in Ancient Palestine, dating from the mid second to the mid seventh centuries C.E.

Public cult buildings from the Late Roman and Early Byzantine period have traditionally been studied from within the historiographic streams of Christianity and Judaism. The ensuing character of Antique culture follows the confessional paradigm and is characterized as Christian, Pagan and miscellane