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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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2021
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| In: |
Novum Testamentum
Jahr: 2021, Band: 63, Heft: 2, Seiten: 143-158 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Biblische Archäologie
/ Historische Geografie
/ Apostel
/ Betsaida
/ El-Araj
/ See von Genezareth
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| IxTheo Notationen: | HC Neues Testament HH Archäologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | 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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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Novum Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341710 |