Diagram: A Galilean Synagogue
Posted on 07/09/2010 10:31:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Among various important discoveries, the 2010 Kinneret Regional Project discovered an ancient synagogue, in use at around 400 AD. This year's archeological focus is the first systematic excavation on Horvat Kur, a village inhabited from the Early Roman through the Early Medieval periods located on a gentle hill two kilometers west of the Lake of Galilee.
Thirty volunteers -- mostly students of theology, religious studies, and archeology -- and staff from the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium, Spain, Israel, and Germany explore the material remains of the village life in Galilee, a region that features very prominently in Early Christian and Rabbinic tradition...
...In 2008, a large number of coins were found on the surfaces of this open space, indicating that the building represented by the above mentioned monumental wall might already have been in use at around 400 AD. During the 2010 campaign, another large amount of coins came to light in the same area which are likely to corroborate this dating once numismatic analysis of the newly found coin material is completed. Fragments of pilasters and other architectural elements were found close by in tumble, which will eventually contribute to the reconstruction of layout and design of the building.
...Taken all the available evidence together, it seems very likely that the Kinneret Regional Project 2010 has discovered a part of the western wall of yet another ancient Galilean synagogue. Together with the well-known synagogues at Capernaum and Chorazin (both around the fifth and sixth century AD, the new synagogue at Horvat Kur -- tentatively dated to the fourth or fifth century AD -- adds new evidence for a very tight net of synagogues in a relatively small area on the Northwestern shores of the Lake of Galilee.
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Muslims will be...........
Helen Thomas and the other Arabs insist that these Synagogues “came from Poland and Germany, the US and other places”
Word has just come in, from Arabia one of Mohammad’s goats passed gas in a Northwesterly direction and thus this is Islam’s 156,232 holiest site.
Diagram: A Galilean Synagogue
Thanks!
I am curious as to how far away this city might have been from the first-century Nazareth...
Post it when you find out. :’)
It appears to be about 27 km from Nazareth. It’s not too far from Capernaum.
Thanks OO.
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