Biblical Bethsaida

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Jan 10 Blog

Where Is the House of Saint Peter the Apostle?

By: Marek Dospěl

After seven seasons of excavation at El-Araj on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists have found the remains of a house that […]

Dec 6 Blog

Ancient Game Die Discovered

By: Jonathan Laden

For almost two hundred years, Beit El has been claimed by some scholars as the site of biblical Bethel, where in the Bible, Jacob dreamed […]

Nov 11 Blog

Geshurite Fort Excavated

By: Jonathan Laden

A complex was excavated on a hill above the El-Al Canyon in Hispin on the Golan Heights. The Iron Age Fort was dated to the […]

Mar 9 Blog

The Great Bethsaida Debate

By: Megan Sauter

Bethsaida appears seven times in the Bible. Jesus performed miracles there (e.g., Matthew 11:21; Mark 8:22), and it was the hometown of the apostles Peter, […]

Feb 27 Blog

First Person: Where Is the Real Biblical Bethsaida?

By: Robert R. Cargill

It is no wonder that the signs designating Tel Beit Tsaida, or Bethsaida, a little more than a mile northeast of the Sea of […]

Feb 27 Blog

Excavating El-Araj—a Candidate for Biblical Bethsaida

By: Megan Sauter

The town of Bethsaida appears in the New Testament as a fishing village on the Sea of Galilee and the hometown of the apostles Peter, […]

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