What Is Jewish Judaism?

There's a picture of somebody with an open scroll with people gathered around him reading the scroll aloud. This is Roman Empire era. So like they're all kind of depicted as looking Roman-esque, wearing togas and that kind of thing. Jeffrey T. Gay makes an interesting comparison here. He says, there's another sacred building in Dura that was a Mithra temple, which was the ancient pagan religion. And he has a scroll in his hand while he's amidst the people in its clothes. But here in the synagogue of Dura, you have a Jewish man with a, and a round of, is a crowd of people though I don't see the crowd in that picture

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