Biblical-Era Town Discovered Along Sea of Galilee

[Eugene]

Source: LiveScience

Biblical-Era Town Discovered Along Sea of Galilee

By Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor | September 16, 2013 08:15am ET

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.

The evidence the team found suggests the town was prosperous in ancient times. "Vessel glass and amphora hint at wealth," Dark wrote in an article published in the most recent edition of the journal Palestine Exploration Quarterly, while "weights and stone anchors, along with the access to beaches suitable for landing boats — and, of course, the first-century boat … all imply an involvement with fishing."

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[Kennah]

1. Ken Ham announced the discovery of a Plesiosaur skeleton, which obviously pulled the boat

[msongs]

2. was the boat really noah's ark? nt

[bananas]

3. Where does it say that? nt

[Thor_MN]

4. Undoubtedly, the boat mut have been the one that someone walked out of...

"The ancient town may be Dalmanutha" or it may have been a town with any name...

They have not one fricking shred of evidence of the town's name, but they shout in the headlines that it may be from the babble.

On a trip to the east coast last year, I personally discover the ancient seaport isle of Nantucket, so all of Moby Dick is undoubtedly truth...

[defacto7]

5. LOL

[Igel]

6. Probably not a lot of towns--it's not a huge "sea".

But it's unlikely to be a town with "any name." Vladivostok, for example, strikes me as an unlikely option. "Stalingrad" can probably be ruled out, as well. Brno isn't good for Greek or Aramaic phonotactics.

And it's the right age for the headline.

There are a lot of old towns. We typically trust documents of a given age to provide information about that time period--it's sort of a staple in historical studies. We do exempt some documents, and that's a weird asymmetry that has more to do with ideological and politics than sound methodology.

[Thor_MN]

8. You have proof of the name of the town?

Bring it on. I (and the archaeologists in the article) have absolutely no evidence of the name of the town.

Tom Sawyer grew up in St. Petersburg, less than 150 years ago, but we are not going to find it on any maps.

[sakabatou]

7. Emphasis on "may be"

[Marrah_G]

9. This was the topic of my first argument with my mother over the bible

I was 6. I was very annoyed that they didn't count the women and children. Only the number of men mattered. That was the beginning of the end for me in the Catholic church.

Totally off topic, I know... but seeing this reminded me of that.

It's no wonder I became a Wiccan