In Jesus’s day, the city of Hippos crowned a high hill on the eastern shores of the Sea of Galilee. It may even be the city Jesus had in mind in the Sermon on the Mount when he told his followers, “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden” (Matthew 5:14). Centuries after Jesus, Hippos was a remarkable center of Christian worship. A new study reports a cluster of astonishing and, in some cases, previously unattested finds. Archaeologists discovered a cathedral at Hippos with not one but two baptismal halls. The larger, […]
