Introduction

<body background="_themes/exped/exptextb.jpg" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#006600" vlink="#006600" alink="#990000"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p align="center"><font size="6"><strong> </strong></font><br> </p> </font></td></tr></table><table dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="1%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p> <a href="lit.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Ancient Literary References to Second Temple Synagogues'; return true" ;><small><small><span style="text-decoration: none">Second Temple</span><br> <span style="text-decoration: none">Synagogue</span></small></small><br> <small><small><span style="text-decoration: none">Literary</span></small></small><br> <small><small><span style="text-decoration: none">Archive</span></small></small></a><small><small><br><br><a href="faqs.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Second Temple Synagogues'; return true"><span style="text-decoration: none">Second Temple</span><br> <span style="text-decoration: none">Synagogue</span><br> <span style="text-decoration: none">FAQs</span></a> </p> <p align="left"><span style="text-decoration: none"> <a onMouseOver="window.status='Comment on a Variety of Topics Featured on this Site'; return true" href="file:///C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/discus"><span style="text-decoration: none">Discussion</span><br> <span style="text-decoration: none">Board</span></a></p> <p><a href="image.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Enter the Image Gallery'; return true"><span style="text-decoration: none">Image Gallery</span></a></p> <p align="left"><img src="images/greenbal.gif" name="ball0" width="10" height="10" alt="greenbal.gif (109 bytes)"><a href="gamla.html" onMouseOver="img_act('ball0'); window.status='View Images of the Gamla Synagogue'; return true" onMouseOut="img_inact('ball0')"><span style="text-decoration: none">Gamla</span></a><br> <img src="images/greenbal.gif" name="ball1" width="10" height="10" alt="greenbal.gif (109 bytes)"><a href="capernaum.html" onMouseOver="img_act('ball1'); 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return true" onMouseOut="img_inact('ball7')"><span style="text-decoration: none">Ostia</span></a><br> <img src="images/greenbal.gif" name="ball8" width="10" height="10" alt="greenbal.gif (109 bytes)"><a href="egypt.html" onMouseOver="img_act('ball8'); window.status='View Images of Egyptian Synagogue Inscriptions'; return true" onMouseOut="img_inact('ball8')"><span style="text-decoration: none">Egypt</span></a></span></small><span style="text-decoration: none"><br> <small><img src="images/greenbal.gif" name="ball111" width="10" height="10" alt="greenbal.gif (109 bytes)"><a href="cyrenaica.html" onMouseOver="img_act('ball111'); window.status='View Images of Synagogue Inscriptions from Cyrenaica'; return true" onMouseOut="img_inact('ball111')"><span style="text-decoration: none">Cyrenaica</span></a><br> <img src="images/greenbal.gif" name="ball9" width="10" height="10" alt="greenbal.gif (109 bytes)"><a href="bosporus.html" onMouseOver="img_act('ball9'); window.status='View Images of Synagogue Inscriptions from the Cimmerian Bosporus'; return true" onMouseOut="img_inact('ball9')"><span style="text-decoration: none">The Bosporus</span></a><br> <img src="images/greenbal.gif" name="ball00" width="10" height="10" alt="greenbal.gif (109 bytes)"><a href="credits.html" onMouseOver="img_act('ball00'); window.status='View the Photo Credits'; return true" onMouseOut="img_inact('ball00')"><span style="text-decoration: none">Credits</span></a></p> <p align="left"> <a onMouseOver="window.status='Main Menu for Excerpts from \'Into the Temple Courts\''; return true" href="book.html"><span style="text-decoration: none">Book Excerpt</span></a></p> <p align="left"><img src="images/greenbal.gif" name="ball11" width="10" height="10" alt="greenbal.gif (109 bytes)"><a href="abstract.html" onMouseOver="img_act('ball11'); window.status='Abstract of \'Into the Temple Courts\''; return true" onMouseOut="img_inact('ball11')"><span style="text-decoration: none">Abstract</span></a><br> <img src="images/greenbal.gif" name="ball22" width="10" height="10" alt="greenbal.gif (109 bytes)"><a href="acknowle.html" onMouseOver="img_act('ball22'); window.status='Acknowledgements from \'Into the Temple Courts\''; return true" onMouseOut="img_inact('ball22')"><span style="text-decoration: none">Acknowledgements</span></a><br> <img src="images/greenbal.gif" name="ball33" width="10" height="10" alt="greenbal.gif (109 bytes)"><a href="Introframe.html" onMouseOver="img_act('ball33'); window.status='Hypertext Introduction of \'Into the Temple Courts\''; return true" onMouseOut="img_inact('ball33')"><span style="text-decoration: none">Introduction</span></a><br> <img src="images/greenbal.gif" name="ball44" width="10" height="10" alt="greenbal.gif (109 bytes)"><a href="bibliography.html" onMouseOver="img_act('ball44'); window.status='Bibliography of \'Into the Temple Courts\''; return true" onMouseOut="img_inact('ball44')"><span style="text-decoration: none">Select Bibliography</span></a></p> <p align="left"><a href="author.html" onMouseOver="window.status='A few words about the Author'; return true"><span style="text-decoration: none">About the Author</span></a></p> <p align="left"><img src="images/greenbal.gif" name="ball55" width="10" height="10" alt="greenbal.gif (109 bytes)"><a href="cv.html" onMouseOver="img_act('ball55'); 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