Steven Fine is Associate Professor of Rabbinic literature and history at Baltimore Hebrew University. He is the author of This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue During the Greco-Roman Period and the award winning Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World.

• Chapter 1 Common Judaism and the Synagogue in the First Century, E.P. Sanders; Chapter 2 Was The Synagogue A Place Of Sabbath Worship Before 70 Ce?, Pieter W. van der Horst; Chapter 3 The Early History of Public Reading of the Torah, Lawrence H. Schiffman; Chapter 4 The Rabbis and the Non Existent Monolithic Synagogue, Stuart S. Miller; Chapter 5 Art In The Synagogue, Joseph M. Baumgarten; Chapter 6 The Patriarchate and the Ancient Synagogue, Lee I. Levine; Chapter 7 Sage, Priest, and Poet, Michael D. Swartz; Chapter 8 Samaritan Synagogues And Jewish Synagogues, Reinhard Pummer; Chapter 9 The Synagogue Within the Greco-Roman City, Tessa Rajak; Chapter 10 The Dura Europos Synagogue, Early-Christian Art, and Religious Life in Dura Europos, Robin M. Jensen; Chapter 11 Jews, Christians, and Polytheists in Late-Antique Sardis, John S. Crawford; Chapter 12 The Torah Shrine In The Ancient Synagogue, Eric M. Meyers; Chapter 13 Non-Jews in the Synagogues of Late-Antique Palestine, Steven Fine;