Dura Europos, Elijah Defeats the Prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel (200s CE)
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Goodenough, Erwin Ramsdell. "The Paintings of the Dura-Europos Synagogue: Method and an Application." Israel Exploration Journal 8:2 (1958) 69-79.
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Kessler, Herbert L. "Prophetic Portraits in the Dura Synagogue." Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 30 (1987) 149-55.
General Resources on the Paintings in the Dura Europos Synagogue
Bickerman, Elias Joseph. "Symbolism in the Dura Synagogue." Harvard Theological Review 58 (1965) 127-151.
Fine, Steven. "Liturgy and the Art of the Dura Europos Synagogue." In Liturgy in the Life of the Synagogue: Studies in the History of Jewish Prayer (ed. Ruth Langer and Steven Fine; Duke Judaic Studies 2; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2005) 41-71.
--------. "Liturgy and the Remains of the Dura Europos Synagogue: How Did It Function as a Religious Venue?" Journal of Synagogue Music 37 (2012) 20-48.
Fischer, James A. "Synagogue Paintings of Dura-Europos." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 17:2 (1955) 189-195.
Gates, Marie-Henriette Carre. "Dura-Europos: A Fortress of Syro-Mesopotamian Art." The Biblical Archaeologist 47:3, Sept. 1984) 166-181.
Goldstein, Jonathan A. "The Central Composition of the West Wall of the Synagogue of Dura-Europos." The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 16-17 (1984) 99-142.
--------. "The Judaism of the Synagogues (with a Focus on Dura-Europos)." In Judaism in Late Antiquity, Part 2, Historical Syntheses (ed. Jacob Neusner; Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1, The Near and Middle East; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995) 109-157.
Gutmann, Joseph. The Dura-Europas Synagogue: A Re-Evaluation (1932-1992), South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 25. Tampa: University of South Florida Press, 1973.
--------. "The Dura Europos Synagogue Paintings: The State of Research." In The Synagogue in Late Antiquity (ed. Lee A. Levine; Winona Lake, Indiana: American Schools of Oriental Research/Eisenbrauns, 1987) 61-72.
--------. "The Synagogue at Dura-Europos: A Critical Analysis." In Evolution of the Synagogue: Problems and Progress (ed. Howard Clark Kee adn Lynn H Cohick; New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 1999) 73-88.
Hachlili, Rachel. "The Dura-Europos Synagogue Wall Paintings: A Question of Origin and Interpretation." In "Follow the Wise": Studies in Jewish History and Culture in Honor of Lee I. Levine (ed. Zeev Weiss; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2010) 403-420.
Laderman, Shula. "A New Look at the Second Register of the West Wall in Dura Europos." Cahiers Archeologiques 45 (1997) 5-18.
Moon, Warren G. "Nudity and Narrative: Observations on the Frescoes from the Dura Synagogue." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 60 (1992) 587-658.
Nock, Arthur Darby. "Synagogue Murals of Dura-Europos." In Harry Austryn Wolfson, Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (Jerusalem: American Academy of Jewish Research, 1965) 631-639.
Post, Paulus Gijsbertus Johannes. "Dura Europos Revisited: Rediscovering Sacred Space." Worship 86:3 (2012) 222-244.
Schenk, Kära. "Temple, Community, and Sacred Narrative in the Dura-Europos Synagogue." AJS Review 34:2 (2010) 195-229.
Sonne, Isaiah. "The Paintings of the Dura Synagogue." Hebrew Union College Annual 20 (1947) 255-362.
Stern, Karen B. "Mapping Devotion in Roman Dura Europos: A Reconsideration of the Synagogue Ceiling." American Journal of Archaeology 114:3 (2010) 473-504.
Weisman, Stefanie. "Militarism in the Wall Paintings of the Dura-Europos Synagogue: A New Perspective on Jewish Life on the Roman Frontier." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 30:3 (2012) 1-34.
Wharton, Annabel Jane. "Good and Bad Images from the Synagogue of Dura Europos: Contexts, Subtexts, Intertexts." Art History 17 (1994) 1-25.
Wischnitzer, Rachel Bernstein. "Closed Temple Panel in the Synagogue of Dura-Europos." Journal of the American Oriental Society 91 (1971) 367-378.
--------. "Paintings of the Synagogue at Dura-Europos." Gazette Des Beaux Arts (1948) 261-266.
Dura Europos, Elijah Defeats the Prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel (200s CE)