Monday, May 04, 2009

Starry-eyed

OberDicta comments on Gershom Scholem's theory of the star of david coming from external sources to be a Jewish symbol.

Well, I live out here at Shiloh and a portion of the mosaic floor of a 5th century Byzantine Basilica looks like this:



A star but not what we were looking for.


But if you go here, you'll see a real six-pointed star a la Magen David.

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