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Ancient Chorazin Comes Back to Life

A Galilee town is reconstructed from fragments

By Zeev Yeivin

“Woe unto you, Chorazin!” So says Jesus of this town in the Galilee (Matthew 11:21; Luke 10:13). Chorazin is one of several Galilean towns condemned because they did not repent: “Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you Beth-saida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. And you Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to […]

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Footnotes

1.

Khirbet means “a ruined place” in Arabic.

2.

These excavations were conducted on behalf of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums.

3.

The work in the 1980s was conducted under the auspices of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums and the National Parks Authority.

4.

Sometimes “Talmud” is used to refer to the Gemarah alone; at other times “Talmud” refers in the aggregate to the Mishnah, the Gemarah and other commentaries usually printed with these earlier treatises.

5.

See Ze’ev Yeivin, “Has Another Lost Ark Been Found?” BAR 09:01.

6.

See “Is the Cultic Installation at Dan Really an Olive Press?” BAR 10:06.