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Archaeologists Uncover Gate to Biblical City of Zer


(Jerusalem Post) Tamara Zieve - Archaeologists have uncovered the entrance gate to the biblical city of Zer during excavations carried out in the Golan Heights over the past two weeks, the Golan Regional Council said Sunday. Dr. Rami Arav said Joshua 19:35 lists Zer as one of 5 "fortified towns" during the First Temple period. The city was known as Bethsaida during the Second Temple period, a village mentioned several times in the New Testament as a place where Jesus miraculously fed a multitude of people with five loaves and two fish.
2018-07-11 00:00:00
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