In Search of the City of the Apostles
The authors present the results of four years of investigation (2016–2019) in their search for Bethsaida-Julias. They bring historical, geographical, and archaeological evidence to argue that Khirbet el-Araj should be considered the leading candidate for the New Testament home of the Apostles. Unlik...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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| In: |
Novum Testamentum
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 143-158 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Biblical archaeology
/ Historical geography
/ Apostle
/ Bethsaida
/ El-Araj
/ Tiberias
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament HH Archaeology |
| Further subjects: | B
Roman Period
B Julias B Archaeology B Byzantine monastery B Historical geography B Herod Philip B Josephus B Sea of Galilee B Khirbet el-Araj B Bethsaida |
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| Summary: | The authors present the results of four years of investigation (2016–2019) in their search for Bethsaida-Julias. They bring historical, geographical, and archaeological evidence to argue that Khirbet el-Araj should be considered the leading candidate for the New Testament home of the Apostles. Unlike the remote location of the alternate candidate at et-Tell, their excavations at el-Araj have demonstrated a significant Roman period settlement on the lakeshore of the Sea of Galilee, a much more likely location for a fishing village. In addition, their discovery in 2017 of a Roman bathhouse at el-Araj is characteristic of Herod Philip’s urbanization of the village of Bethsaida, which Josephus reports was transformed from a village into the polis of Julias. After the Roman period, the site was abandoned for two centuries (4th–5th cent. CE ), and then resettled with a monastery and Byzantine basilica, reportedly built over the house of Peter and Andrew. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5365 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Novum Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341710 |