RARE comprehensive monograph on the synagogue as a place of sanctity in Late Antiquity by Steven Fine (born 1958), historian of Judaism in the Greco-Roman World, the Dr.Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University (formerly assistant and associate professor at Baltimore Hebrew College in 1994-2000 and Jewish Foundation Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati in 2000-2005), the director of the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project and of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, and a founding editor of Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture. 230x155mm. X+280 pages. Illustrated Softcover. Cover corners/edges and spine edges very slightly bumped. This extremely rare book, an important contribution to Jewish studies and the entire nature of late antique civilization, is in very good condition.