In ancient Judaism, an archisynagogue (Greek ἀρχισυνάγωγος; Hebrew ראש הכנסת; lit. "synagogue chief") was the officer who supervised matters pertaining...

[son] of Yedaya, elder of the Jews founded [the building])", naming Archisynagogue Samuel as the 'founder' in 245 AD. Often names were mentioned, and it...

Roman empire. They appear to have had priests (rabbis or ḥazzanim), archisynagogues, patersynagogues, and other synagogue officials. The Jews worked principally...

connected with his stay in some place in the Holy Land. In Ecdippa the archisynagogue Scipio asked him a question which he answered by letter after his return...

synagogue") would hand the Book of the Law to the rosh haknesset (ראש הכנסת, "archisynagogue"), who would hand it to the deputy kohen gadol, who would hand it to...