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Israel Research Trip, Post #13

Bible Lands, Biblical Archaeology, Old Testament / By Dr. William Barrick

Tel Dan No site in Israel combines all the elements that Tel Dan displays: a delightful walk through the forest along the rushing waters of a source for the Jordan River, a high place notorious in the Old Testament, an example of a gateway containing both a judgment seat and massebot, and a Middle Bronze …

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Israel Research Trip, Post #11

Bible Lands, Biblical Archaeology, New Testament / By Dr. William Barrick

Chorazin Jerome Murphy-O’Connor refers to Chorazin as “Capernaum with a view.”[1] The city sat about two miles north of Capernaum at a site known as Khirbet Karazeh (or, Karraza), with which C. W. M. Van de Velde identified Chorazin (Korazim) in the 1850s. Here lie the remains of another synagogue with ties to the time of …

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