On a sweltering Thursday afternoon last month, Prof. Mordechai Aviam of Kinneret College drove to el-Araj, an archaeological site on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, hauling buckets, tarps ...
An approximate map of Bethsaida near the northern banks of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. (Credit: Map courtesy of Biblos.com.) Listen JERUSALEM — Archaeologists excavating in northern Israel ...
Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. In ...
The Bible describes Bethsaida as the hometown of the apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip, though little is said about its exact location. Bethsaida does, however, play a crucial role in the New ...
The "lost home of Jesus' apostles" has just been found, according to a recent Israeli newspaper report. Yet while the actual discovery is not nearly as sensational as many headlines suggest, the new ...
Recent discoveries have placed the biblical city of Bethsaida closer to shore where Peter and Andrew left their nets to follow Christ. After recent headlines announced that archaeologists in Israel ...