The article discusses the late-antique synagogue at Ein Gedi, its decorative mosaics, and their Aramaic inscriptions. Surprisingly, it does not mention the main thing for which the synagogue has been in the news in recent years: the charred Leviticus scroll found there in 1970, which was deciphered in 2015 with the help of new, non-intrusive scanning technology. For that scroll see here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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