Two German excavators who were at work on the site until 1907 uncovered the remains of columns of an ancient Jewish synagogue ... Chorasin to the northwest of Capernaum, above Lake Kinnereth.

Capernaum is an ancient village of Galilee, the site of which scientists have not agreed upon. In this city, as recorded in the New Testament, Jesus of Nazareth preached when he began his mission.

One of my favorite pastimes is to make my way to the over fifty ruins of ancient ... to see these synagogues is to check out one of the better preserved ones, like at Baram, Capernaum or Khorazin ...

teaching and preaching in synagogues all through Galilee, would not have skipped Magdala, located on the Via Maris—the ancient trade route that ran along the Mediterranean and the western shore ...

The dating of the remains of most ancient synagogues has led to a revolution in understanding ... A salient example of this secure status is the monumental synagogue at Capernaum, completed in the 5th ...

The cities of Tiberias and Hammat Gader as well as Korazim, Kursi, Capernaum, and Tabgha surround the Sea ... as part of their survey of ancient synagogues. Excavations were renewed in the 1920's by ...

The diggers were calling for Jodi Magness, the director of excavations at the ancient ... grant. "Synagogues of this particular type—which is best represented by the synagogue at Capernaum ...

In a statement, Magness said of the newly discovered mosaics: “These scenes are very rare in ancient synagogues.” The only other examples of Noah’s Ark have been found at Gerasa/Jerash in ...