Editing Synagogue (section)

==Christianity==
In the [[New Testament]], the word appears 56 times, mostly in the [[Synoptic Gospels]], but also in the [[Gospel of John]] ({{bibleverse|John 9:22; 18:20|multi=yes}}) and the [[Book of Revelation]] ({{bibleverse|Rev. 2:9; 3:9|multi=yes}}). It is used in the sense of 'assembly' in the [[Epistle of James]] ({{bibleverse|James|2:2}}). Alternatively, the epistle of James (in Greek, clearly Ἰάκωβος or יעקב, anglicized to Jacob) refers to a place of assembly that was indeed Jewish, with Jacob ben Joseph perhaps an elder there. The specific word in James (Jacob) 2:2 could easily be rendered "synagogue", from the Greek συναγωγὴν.

During the first Christian centuries, [[Jewish Christians]] are hypothesized to have used houses of worship known in academic literature as synagogue-churches. Scholars have claimed to have identified such houses of worship of the Jews who had accepted [[Jesus]] as the [[Messiah]] in Jerusalem<ref name="Skarsaune">{{cite book |first= Oskar |last= Skarsaune |title= In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity |page= 186 |year= 2008 |publisher= IVP Academic |isbn= 978-0-8308-2844-9 |quote= 9780830828449 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IAlQTo4H4F4C&pg=PA186 |access-date= 1 September 2018 }}</ref> and [[Nazareth]].<ref name="Taylor">{{cite book |last=Taylor |first=Joan E. |url= |title=Christians and the Holy Places: The Myth of Jewish-Christian Origins |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-19-814785-5 |page=338 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first= Chad Fife |last= Emmett |year=1995 |title= Beyond the Basilica: Christians and Muslims in Nazareth |page= [https://archive.org/details/beyondbasilicach0000emme/page/22 22] |url= https://archive.org/details/beyondbasilicach0000emme |url-access=registration |issue=237 |publisher= [[University of Chicago Press]] |series= University of Chicago Geography Research Papers (Book 237) |isbn= 978-0-226-20711-7 |access-date= 1 September 2018 }}</ref>