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June 25, 2019

Digging in the Golan for New Testament History, Archaeologists Find a Ruin from the Time of King David

“King David might have walked on these very cobblestones.”

Experts are currently at odds about the location of the ancient city of Bethsaida, mentioned frequently in the New Testament as being somewhere in northern Israel. Now the team excavating one of two possible sites for Bethsaida has made an intriguing discovery: a city gate from the 11th century BCE that suggests that this was also the more ancient city of Zer, known from the Hebrew Bible. James Rogers writes:

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