Biblical Archaeology Review

Solomon Schechter, Documents of Jewish Sectaries: Fragments of a Zadokite Work, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1910).

The Cairo Genizah is a collection of mostly Jewish manuscripts, composed in the Middle Ages in Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic and other languages. In the late 19th century, this collection was discovered in a synagogue in Fostat, Old Cairo, and was brought to various European and American libraries, mainly Cambridge University.

The site was excavated in the 1980s by Joseph Patrich and Yoram Tsafrir of Hebrew University.

Ancient synagogues have been surveyed or excavated in Syria, Turkey, North Africa, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Italy and Spain: Apamea and Dura-Europos in Syria; Misis-Mopsuestia, Priene, Sardis and, recently, remains of two additional synagogues, one in the central Lycian city of Andriake and the other a building at Limyra (Lycian region) in Asia Minor (Turkey); Hammam-Lif and Leptis Magna in North Africa; Philippopolis in Bulgaria; Aegina and Delos in Greece; Stobi in Macedonia; Ostia and Bova Marina in Italy; and Elche in Spain.

Bradley Parker refers to Hericlius’s visit in The Mechanics of Empire, vol. 2 (Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Corpus Project, 2002), p. 47.

For translation, see Daniel Luckenbill, The Annals of Sennacherib (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2005), pp. 14, 35–36, 63–33, 71–72 and 77.

Eastern Turkey: An Architectural and Archaeological Survey (London: Pindar Press, 1987–1990).

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/albright5.shtml.