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Earliest Mosaic of Jonah and the Whale Found in Galilee Synagogue

(Times of Israel) Amanda Borschel-Dan - Unprecedented depictions of the biblical Jonah and the whale have been found at a fifth-century Roman synagogue at the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq in Israel's lower Galilee. In the recently discovered mosaic, Jonah's legs are shown dangling from the mouth of a large fish, which is being swallowed by a larger fish, which is being consumed by a third, even larger fish.
2017-07-10 00:00:00
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