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Location: Capernaum Description: The synagogue at Capernaum, of the style of the first or second centuries, but dated in the fourth or fifth century. Local basaltic rock, rather than white stone, would have been used for the "centurian's synagogue" of the first century. |
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Location: Capernaum Description: Interior of the fourth or fifth century synagogue at Capernaum. |
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Location: Capernaum Description: The west side of the fourth or fifth century synagogue at Capernaum. The black basaltic rock may have formed the foundation of the synagogue where Jesus taught. |
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Location: Capernaum Description: The lower level of this black, basaltic rock foundation is the wall of a first century synagogue. |
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Location: Capernaum Description: The interior of the synagogue at Capernaum. |
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Location: Capernaum Description: Decorative work found at the Capernaum synagogue. A stone carving of the ark of the covenant which contained the Torah scrolls in the 4th and 5th century. |
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Location: Capernaum Description: A lintel stone from the Capernaum synagogue showing three of the fruits of the land: grapes, pomegranates, and figs. |
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Location: Capernaum Description: A column at the northern end of the Capernaum synagogue, with a Greek inscription. |
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Location: Capernaum Description: Looking east from Moshav Almagor over the area where the Jordan River enters the Sea of Galilee (right center). The Golan hills rise in the background. Et Tel, one of the proposed sites of Bethsaida, lies near the center left, on the east side of the Jordan; El Araj, the other proposed site is located in the Eucalyptus grove on the far shoreline, just to the right of center. |
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Location: Capernaum Description: The north shore of the Sea of Galilee just east of Capernaum, looking southwest. |
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Location: Capernaum Description: The north shore of the Sea of Galilee, just east of Capernaum, looking east. |
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Location: Capernaum Description: Millstones (Matt 18:6). |
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