El-Araj

By: BAS Staff

Grateful for BAR I REALLY CHERISH BAR. As a Christian, reading BAR prompts me to look up events/scripture in the Bible. For this alone, I […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

 Hear from archaeologists, volunteers, and students excavating El-Araj in this exclusive video. This is the latest post in Bible History Daily’s ongoing series about […]

By: Matthew Burden

It’s not everyone’s idea of fun to do unpaid manual labor in the sweltering heat of an Israeli summer. But for those who know the […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Could a mosaic inscription at the site of El-Araj be the smoking gun archaeologists are looking for to determine the true location of biblical Bethsaida? […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

For almost four decades, the Biblical Archaeology Society has been connecting volunteers with the opportunity to participate in some of the most exciting and groundbreaking […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Two Possibilities for biblical Bethsaida In 2017, excavators at El-Araj uncovered a Byzantine basilica. The question on everyone’s mind: “Is this the lost Church of […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]