Friday, August 9, 2019

A Byzantine Church of the Apostles

From Archaeology News Network:
"We have a Roman village, in the village we have pottery, coins, also stone vessels which are typical of first century Jewish life, so now we strengthen our suggestion and identification that El-Araj is a much better candidate for Bethsaida than e-Tell," he said.

"It has been excavated for the past 32 years. We started digging two years ago because we thought it's the better one and now we have the proofs." Notley, interviewed in Israeli daily Haaretz, is a little more cautious, saying the clincher will be if complete excavation of the El-Araj church reveals an inscription. "It would be normal to find an inscription in a church of the Byzantine period, describing in whose memory it was built, for instance," he told the paper. (Read more.)
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