Searching for Bethsaida: The Case for Et-Tell

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For years, archaeologists have been excavating et-Tell in the Lower Golan, east of the Jordan Rift Valley. See why they believe their site is biblical Bethsaida.

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Footnotes

1. See R. Steven Notley and Mordechai Aviam, “Searching for Bethsaida: The Case for El-Araj.”

Endnotes

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In the 1920s, it was assumed that the mutilations took place after the Muslim conquest. However, during the Umayyad dynasty figurative art was permissible, and iconoclasm took place only with the Shi’ite dynasty of Egypt in the ninth century.