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Artifact Analysis
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- Simon Peter's House
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Archaeologists uncovered several layers of churches on top of a simple, basalt-walled building from the first century in the city of Capernaum. The house was shaped like the homes of the village, but unlike those homes had interior walls coated with white plaster, on which graffiti had been left by Aramaic, Syriac and Greek speaking Christians in the first two centuries of our era. The nature of the inscriptions led the Franciscan archaeologists to conclude that they had unearthed the home of Simon Peter, one of Jesus' leading followers.-
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- Bibliography
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- Corbo, Virgilio C. Cafarnao I: Gli edifici della Città. Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1975.
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- --------. "The Church of the House of St. Peter at Capernaum. In Ancient Churches Revealed (ed. Yoram Tsafrir; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1993) 71-76.
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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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- Loffreda, Stanislao. New Memoirs of Saint Peter by the Sea of Galilee: 1: The House of Capernaum; 2: The Rock of the Primacy at Tabgha. Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1969.
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- North, Robert Grady. "Discoveries at Capernaum." Biblica 58:3 (1977) 424-431.
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- Strange, James F. "Diversity In Early Palestinian Christianity, Some Archaeological Evidences." Anglican Theological Review 65:1 (1983) 14-24. (see especially pp. 18-19)
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- Strange, James F. and Hershel Shanks. "Has the House Where Jesus Stayed in Capernaum Been Found? Italian Archaeologists Believe They Have Uncovered St. Peter's Home." Biblical Archaeology Review 8:6 (1982) 26-37.
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