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Earliest mosaic of Jonah and the whale found in Galilee synagogue

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Jim Haberman/University of North Carolina

Published: 10 July 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Unprecedented depictions of the biblical Jonah found at a fifth-century synagogue in lower Galilee

According to the team of specialists and students led by University of North Carolina, this is the first known depiction of the story of Jonah in an ancient synagogue in Israel (Times of Israel, July 7)

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