Bethsaida and the Church of the Apostles

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In 2017, excavators at El-Araj uncovered a Byzantine basilica. Could this be the lost Church of the Apostles, described by early pilgrims as a church commemorating the home of Peter and Andrew?

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Footnotes

1. See R. Steven Notley and Mordechai Aviam, “Searching for Bethsaida: The Case for El-Araj,” BAR, Spring 2020; Rami Arav, “Searching for Bethsaida: The Case for Et-Tell,” BAR, Spring 2020.