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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Authors: Notley, R. Steven (Author) ; Aviʿam, Mordekhai (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
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
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.
ISSN:1568-5365
Contains:Enthalten in: Novum Testamentum
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341710