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Prize Find: An Incense Shovel from Bethsaida

By Rami AravRichard A. Freund
032 Slowly it emerged from the ground: a beautiful, 8-inch-long bronze incense shovel, the prize find of the 1996 excavations at Bethsaida, near the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The shovel lay in a first-century C.E. refuse pit. Just...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1997

Bethsaida Rediscovered

Long-lost city found north of Galilee shore
By Rami AravRichard A. FreundJohn F. Shroder Jr.
044 Bethsaida is the town that disappeared. Soon after playing a prominent role in the Gospels—Bethsaida is mentioned more often in the New Testament than any city except Jerusalem and Capernaum—this fishing village on the Sea of Galilee simply...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2000

Prisca and Aquila

Traveling tentmakers and church builders
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
040 Aquila and his wife Priscilla are the most prominent couple involved in the first-century expansion of Christianity. They were Paul’s hosts at Corinth (Acts 18:2–3). Subsequently they directed house-churches at Ephesus (1 Corinthians 16:19)...
Bible Review, December 1992

Why Jesus Went Back to Galilee

By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
020 021 Why did Jesus go back to preach in Galilee? The question may seem a silly one. After all, he was a native of Nazareth in Galilee, and it was natural that he should preach to his own...
Bible Review, February 1996

The Name of God in the New Testament

Did the earliest Gospels use Hebrew letters for the Tetragrammaton?
By George Howard
012 Many early copies of the New Testament abbreviate sacred words (nomina sacra). The earliest of these abbreviations stand for “God,” “Lord,” “Christ,” and “Jesus.” Abbreviations of these...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1978

Was The Gospel of Matthew Originally Written In Hebrew?

By George Howard
015 New evidence indicates that the Gospel of Matthew was an original Hebrew composition. Indeed, it is now possible to recover much of this original Hebrew composition from an extant manuscript. But before explaining how this can be done, let me...
Bible Review, Winter 1986

Return to the Cave of Letters: What Still Lies Buried?

By Richard A. FreundRami Arav
025 A small shovel started it all. In the summer of 1996, at the excavation of the Galilee site of Bethsaida (which we codirect), we uncovered a small bronze incense shovel. Others like it were used in the imperial cult throughout the Roman...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2001

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Bible Review, April 2000

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