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Artifact Analysis
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- The Galilee Boat
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When a severe drought in 1986 lowered the level of the Sea of Galilee north of Tiberias and Magdala, it revealed the hull of a first-century CE fishing boat that had been remarkably well-preserved in the mud. Conservation efforts and scientific study allow visitors to see the hull today, complete with its cedar and oak strakes, frames, keel, tenons and pegs and its metal nails. Dubbed "the Jesus boat," it is typical of the fishing vessels of the first century in which several of Jesus' followers made their living a little further north in Capernaum (Peter, Andrew, James and John in Mark 1:16-20).-
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- Bibliography
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- Adan-Bayewitz, David. "Dating the Pottery from the Galilee Boat Excavation." Biblical Archaeology Review 14:5 (1988) 24.
- [published in the Wachsmann article in BAR]
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- Carmi, Israel. "How Old Is the Galilee Boat?" Biblical Archaeology Review 14:5 (1988) 30.
- [published in the Wachsmann article in BAR]
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- Cohen, Orna. "Conservation of the Ancient Boat from the Sea of Galilee." Atiqot 50 (2005) 219-32.
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- Evans, Craig A. "A Fishing Boat, a House, and an Ossuary: What Can We Learn from the Artifacts?" In The Missions of James, Peter, and Paul: Tensions in Early Christianity (ed. Bruce D. Chilton and Craig A. Evans; Novum Testamentum Sup 115; Boston: Brill, 2005) 211-31. Republished in Jesus and the Remains of His Day: Studies in Jesus and the Evidence of Material Culure (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 2015).
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- Peachey, Claire. "Model Building in Nautical Archaeology: The Kinneret Boat." Biblical Archaeologist 53:1 (1990) 46-53.
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- Raban, Avner. "The Boat from Migdal Nunia and the Anchorages of the Sea of Galilee from the Time of Jesus." International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 17:4 (1988) 311-29.
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- Wachsmann, Shelley. The Excavations of an Ancient Boat in the Sea of Galilee. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1990.
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- --------. "The Galilee Boat: 2,000-Year-Old Hull Recovered Intact." Biblical Archaeology Review 14:5 (1988) 18-33.
- [Article contains the brief pieces by Adan-Bayewitz and Carmi]
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- --------. The Sea of Galilee Boat: An Extraordinary 2000 Year Old Discovery, Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series. New York: Plenum, 1995.
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- Werker, Ella. "Identification of the Wood in the Ancient Boat from the Sea of Galilee." Atiqot 50 (2005) 233-6.
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