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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Archaeology => Topic started by: TomSea on August 01, 2019, 06:49:24 pm
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Archaeologists Believe They Have Found the Church of the Apostles
A team of Israeli and American archaeologists claim to have discovered The Church of the Apostles, near Israel’s Sea of Galilee. The church is said to have been built over the house of Jesus’ disciples Peter and Andrew, in the ancient Jewish fishing village of Bethsaida, which later became the Roman city of Julias.
The el-Araj site, in Beit Habek near the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, has been excavated by experts from the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology at Kinneret College in Israel and Nyack College in New York.
https://world.greekreporter.com/2019/07/31/archaeologists-believe-they-have-found-the-church-of-the-apostles/
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The Byzantine church had been mentioned in early Christian pilgrimage itenaries, notably those of the Bavarian bishop (and saint) Willibald in 725 AD. “[Willibald] states that the church was in Bethsaida built over the house of Peter and Andrew, among the first disciples of Jesus,†Notley related to Fox News.
For approximately two centuries, during the fourth and fifth centuries AD., the site appears to have been unoccupied. However, according to Notley, the local Christian community amazingly still remembered the location of the New Testament-era village.
Putting these two quotes together, it can be guesstimated that this church was built in the 500s or 600s (6th or 7th Centuries).