|
Prototype of the Church Communion Table 1 Corinthians 5:7; 10:21 Architectural Similarities between Ancient Synagogues and the Church Christians borrowed from Jewish synagogues, not the other way around. |
Standardized Architectural Synagogue Signature Typology
Synagogue Architecture adopted by the Christian Church
Floorplans and Furnishings of Pre-70 AD Second Temple Period synagogues
"Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump,
just as you are in fact unleavened.
For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed." (1 Corinthians 5:7)
"You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons;
you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons." (1 Corinthians 10:21)
1. The Table of the scrolls was a standard fixture in all of the earliest synagogues.
a. Scrolls would be taken out of the Ark of the Scrolls cabinet and placed on the Table of the scrolls during live worship services.
b. An attendant would take the scrolls out of the Ark of the Scrolls, place it on the Table of the Scrolls until the time of reading.
c. The attendant would then pick up the scrolls for the reading and hand it to someone in the audience or a person who stood on the bema or in the Moses Seat.
d. After the reading, the scrolls would be handed back to the attendant who would put the scrolls on the table until after the service when he was responsible for returning the Tanakh scrolls to the storage cabinet called the Ark of the Scrolls.
2. The most spectacular Tabl3e of the scrolls found to date was at Magdala, pictured above.
3. Other
Table of the scrolls have been discovered in synagogues like Sardis which dates
back to 49 BC:
4. From a distance the Tabernacle, the temple, Synagogues and churches all have all have a special holy table:
a. Tabernacle and Temple: Table of Shewbread
b. Synagogue: Table of the scrolls
c.
Church: Communion Table: "You cannot drink the cup
of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake
of the table of the Lord and the table of demons." (1 Corinthians 10:21)
5. The Elephantine Papyrus form 419 BC proves the Jews used unleavened grapejuice:
a.
See detailed
outline on the Elephantine Passover Letter
By Steve Rudd 2017: Contact the author for comments, input or corrections
|
Jesus your messiah is waiting for you to come home! |
|
|
|
Why not worship with a first century New Testament church near you, that has the same look and feel as the Jewish Synagogue in your own home town. As a Jew, you will find the transition as easy today as it was for the tens of thousands of your forefathers living in Jerusalem 2000 years ago when they believed in Jesus the Nazarene (the branch) as their messiah. It’s time to come home! |
By Steve Rudd: Contact the author for comments, input or corrections.
Go to: Main Ancient Synagogue Start Page