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This chapter challenges the conventional understanding of hope as primarily a future-oriented disposition, often reflected in practices such as horoscopes, prophecies, and oracles. While these practices may create a sense of “hopefulness”, they ultimately undermine “hope” by providing a false sense of security. A more effective method to combat anxiety about mortality involves looking to the past. This chapter analyses how retelling stories of exceptional outcomes fosters hope, by focusing on two resurrection-themed panels from the synagogue at Dura Europos (ca. 240 CE): the widow of Sarepta with the prophet Elijah and the “Valley of the Dry Bones”. The analysis examines their message through presentation details and audience responses conveyed in graffiti.

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Looking Back for Hope: Patterns of Salvation and Positive Performances in the Third-Century Synagogue at Dura Europos

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  • Barbara Crostini

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This chapter challenges the conventional understanding of hope as primarily a future-oriented disposition, often reflected in practices such as horoscopes, prophecies, and oracles. While these practices may create a sense of “hopefulness”, they ultimately undermine “hope” by providing a false sense of security. A more effective method to combat anxiety about mortality involves looking to the past. This chapter analyses how retelling stories of exceptional outcomes fosters hope, by focusing on two resurrection-themed panels from the synagogue at Dura Europos (ca. 240 CE): the widow of Sarepta with the prophet Elijah and the “Valley of the Dry Bones”. The analysis examines their message through presentation details and audience responses conveyed in graffiti.