This is the town “described in the Gospel of Mark as the place Jesus sailed to after miraculously feeding 4,000 people by multiplying a few fish and loaves of bread…” Very exciting!
A town dating back more than 2,000 years has been discovered on the northwest coast of the Sea of Galilee, in Israel’s Ginosar valley.
The ancient town may be Dalmanutha (also spelled Dalmanoutha), described in the Gospel of Mark as the place Jesus sailed to after miraculously feeding 4,000 people by multiplying a few fish and loaves of bread, said Ken Dark, of the University of Reading in the U.K., whose team discovered the town during a field survey.
The archaeologists also determined that a famous boat, dating to around 2,000 years ago, and uncovered in 1986, was found on the shoreline of the newly discovered town. The boat was reported on two decades ago but the discovery of the town provides new information on what lay close to it.
More background and analysis at:
School of Divinity (New College), University of Edinburgh: Dr Ken Dark on Galilean Archaeology
Yay! More Biblical evidence for the naysayers. 🙂
I imagine the Jesus standing in that boat. Interesting after 2000 freaking years they actually find a boat at that location, and now finally understand that it was at the shoreline of a town that is so important in the story of Jesus. Love it!
Theres so much biblical truth to corroborate the writings of both the Old & New Testament that its hard not to believe. But to me, the greatest “proof” is the Shroud of Turin which testifies to the fact that a man was crucified in exactly as the Psalms, Isaiah and the gospels say and miraculously imprinted His image as if using radiation (resurrection) on a shroud. Check it out.
http://www.newgeology.us/presentation24.html
Matthew records the feeding as for “about 5,000” . See Matthew 14;13-21. But isn’t archeology amazing?
This gave me goose bumps – amazing finds =^)
How long do you think it’ll be before the Moslems try to blow it up?