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Capernaum
 


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Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files.
 
 
Archaeological Evidence
 
Excavation Websites
 
  • Sanctuary Capernaum - hosted by the Custodia Terrae Sanctae, a group of "Franciscan missionaries serving the Holy Land."
 
 
Excavation Reports
 
Corbo, Virgilio C.  Cafarnao I: Gli edifici della Città.  Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1975.
 
Foerster, Gideon.  "Notes on Recent Excavations at Capernaum."  In Ancient Synagogues Revealed (ed. Lee I. Levine; Jerusalem/Detroit: Israel Exploration Society/Wayne State University Press, 1982) 57-9.
 
--------.  "Notes on Recent Excavations at Capernaum (Review Article)."  Israel Exploration Journal 21 (1971) 207-211.
 
Mattila, Sharon Lea.  "Capernaum, Village of Naḥum, from Hellenistic to Byzantine Times."  In Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods, vol. 2, The Archaeological Record from Cities, Towns, and Villages (ed. David A. Fiensy and James Riley Strange; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015) 217-57.
 
North, Robert.  "Discoveries at Capernaum."  Biblica 58 (1977) 424-31.
 
Tzaferis, Vassilios.  Excavations at Capernaum, I: 1978-1982.  Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns/ Pepperdine University, 1989.
 
 
Associated Artifacts
 
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Avi-Yonah, M.  "Editor's Note."  Israel Exploration Journal 23 (1973) 43-5.
 
Chen, D.  "On the Chronology of the Ancient Synagogue at Capernaum."  Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins 102 (1986) 134-43.
 
Fischer, Moshe.  "The Corinthian Capitals of the Capernaum Synagogue: A Revision."  Levant 18 (1986) 131-42.
 
Kloppenborg, John S.  "The Theodotos Synagogue Inscription and the Problem of First-Century Synagogue Buildings."  In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 236-82.
 
Loffreda, S.  "The Late Chronology of the Synagogue of Capernaum" and "A Reply to the Editor."  Israel Exploration Journal 23 (1973) 37-42, 184.
 
--------.  Recovering Capharnaum, Studium biblicum Franciscanum Guides 1.  Jerusalem: Custodia Terra Santa, 1985.
 
Ma'oz, Zvi Uri.  "The Synagogue at Capernaum: A Radical Solution."  In The Roman and Byzantine Near East: Some Recent Archaeological Research (ed. John H. Humphrey; JRASup 31; Portsmouth, Rhode Island: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1999) 2.137-48.
 
Strange, James F.  "The Archaeology of Religion at Capernaum, Synagogue and Church."  In Religious Texts and Material Contexts (ed. Jacob Neusner and James F. Strange; Studies in Ancient Judaism; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2001) 43-62.
 
Tsafrir, Yoram.  "The Synagogues at Capernaum and Meroth and the Dating of the Galilean Synagogue."  In The Roman and Byzantine Near East: Some Recent Archaeological Research (ed. John H. Humphrey; JRASup 14; Ann Arbor, Michigan: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1995) 1.151-61.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
 
 
Connections of Material to Jesus: Secondary Literature
 
Chilton, Bruce.  "From Economic Culture to Theological Interpretation: Nazareth, Capernaum, and Jerusalem as Environments of Jesus' Teaching."  In Religious Texts and Material Contexts (ed. Jacob Neusner and James F. Strange; Studies in Ancient Judaism; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2001) 63-71.  [Article filed in Nazareth & Bethlehem folder]
 
Dunn, James D. G.  "Did Jesus Attend the Synagogue?"  In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 206-222.
 
Laughlin, John C. H.  "Capernaum from Jesus' Time and After."  Biblical Archaeology Review 19:5 (1993) 54-61, 90.
 
Richardson, Peter.  "What Has Cana To Do with Capernaum?"  New Testament Studies 48:3 (2002) 314-31.
 
 
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