Archaeologist Dr. Jodi Magness joins Eve Harow to discuss synagogue mosaics she has uncovered in the Galilean ancient Jewish town of Huqoq.
Magness, who holds a senior endowed chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tells Eve about the scenes likely portraying the Biblical Samson, the Maccabee-era Simon the Just and even Alexander the Great — amidst elephants, who are not indigenous to the land of Israel. listen now
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