The so-called Elephant Mosaic panel from the Huqoq synagogue floor has sparked intense scholarly debate regarding its interpretation. This article proposes a biblical episode as its topic: the killing of the Moabite king Eglon by Ehud ben Gera (Judges 3). Reading the panels as a unified composition, the biblical-midrashic interpretation offered here combines biblical elements with their rabbinic interpretations. The importance of the latter inheres in their reflection of the Galilean milieu contemporary with the Huqoq community. The suggested interpretation also shares common motifs with another source, Megillat Antiochus, thus raising the question of whether, as interpreted here, the Byzantine artistic elements shed light on how the Huqoq community portrayed biblical themes and transmitted later traditions, especially those connected to divine deliverance.

来自 Huqoq 犹太教堂地板的所谓大象马赛克面板引发了对其解释的激烈学术辩论。这篇文章提出了一个圣经事件作为其主题：埃胡德·本·格拉（Ehud ben Gera）（士师 3）杀害了摩押国王伊格伦。将面板视为一个统一的组合，这里提供的圣经-midrashic 解释将圣经元素与其拉比解释相结合。后者的重要性体现在他们对与 Huqoq 社区同时代的伽利略环境的反映中。建议的解释也与另一个来源 Megillat Antiochus 共享共同的主题，因此提出了一个问题，即如这里所解释的，拜占庭艺术元素是否阐明了 Huqoq 社区如何描绘圣经主题和传播后来的传统，