Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn informs about the excavations on et-Tell at the
northern end of the Sea of Galilee, directed by the Israeli
archaeologist Rami Arav, professor at the University of Nebraska at
Omaha and Prof. Richard Freund of the University of Hartford as
Project Director. It is now possible to identify the hill with
Bethsaida/Julias, which is mentioned, among other texts, in the New
Testament gospels (seven times), by the Jewish historian Josephus
and in Rabbinical literature. This volume has a twofold purpose: On
the one hand, the 15 collected essays in English and German,
complemented by the Munich excavation plans, enable the reader to
follow the course of the excavations from the very beginning in
1987. The emphasis of the collected essays (beginning with an
article published in 1989) lies on the levels of the
Hellenistic-Early Roman period, giving a continuous description of
the excavations, as they developed over such a long time. On the
other hand, one finds here the current data of the excavations,
with many important details concerning the Hellenistic-Early Roman
period, with the author focussing especially on the first half of
the first century CE, the time of Jesus activity at Bethsaida, as
can be shown through historical-critical research. In particular,
an overview is given of all the coins of the Herods (from Herod the
Great to Agrippa II, including five coins of Philip, the ruler at
the time of Jesus), of finds of columns, figurines and decorated
stones, and there are lists of the so-called Herodian oil lamps and
the typical Jewish stone vessels from the Early Roman period. The
question of a small pagan Hellenistic-Early Roman temple is
discussed, illustrated with many pictures. The excavation plans of
the whole area and including all excavated levels from Iron Age IIA
on (with an exact grid), extending over 25 years, are unique since
they can never be redrawn, due to the normal destruction of nature
and ongoing excavations. Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn informs about the
excavations on et-Tell at the northern end of the Sea of Galilee,
directed by the Israeli archaeologist Rami Arav, professor at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha and Prof. Richard Freund of the
University of Hartford as Project Director. It is now possible to
identify the hill with Bethsaida/Julias, which is mentioned, among
other texts, in the New Testament gospels (seven times), by the
Jewish historian Josephus and in Rabbinical literature. This volume
has a twofold purpose: On the one hand, the 15 collected essays in
English and German, complemented by the Munich excavation plans,
enable the reader to follow the course of the excavations from the
very beginning in 1987. The emphasis of the collected essays
(beginning with an article published in 1989) lies on the levels of
the Hellenistic-Early Roman period, giving a continuous description
of the excavations, as they developed over such a long time. On the
other hand, one finds here the current data of the excavations,
with many important details concerning the Hellenistic-Early Roman
period, with the author focussing especially on the first half of
the first century CE, the time of Jesus activity at Bethsaida, as
can be shown through historical-critical research. In particular,
an overview is given of all the coins of the Herods (from Herod the
Great to Agrippa II, including five coins of Philip, the ruler at
the time of Jesus), of finds of columns, figurines and decorated
stones, and there are lists of the so-called Herodian oil lamps and
the typical Jewish stone vessels from the Early Roman period. The
question of a small pagan Hellenistic-Early Roman temple is
discussed, illustrated with many colored pictures. The excavation
plans of the whole area and including all excavated levels from
Iron Age IIA on (with an exact grid), extending over 25 years, are
unique since they can never be redrawn, due to the normal
destruction of nature and ongoing excavations.
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