News from the Field: Has Another Lost Ark Been Found?

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I am pleased to inaugurate BAR’s “News from the Field” department with the first English publication of a most unusual find. It was recently discovered in the ancient city of Chorazim which overlooks the Sea of Galilee. The find is an almost unique pilaster whose function I will dare to suggest at the end of this note. Chorazim lies about two miles northeast of Capernaum. The town is first mentioned in the New Testament (Matthew 11:20–24, Luke 10:12–16); in these passages, the town’s inhabitants, along with those of Capernaum and Beth Saida, are scorned for their sins. From its […]

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Footnotes

Heinrich Kohl and Carl Watzinger, Antike Synagogen In Galilaea, (Leipzig, 1916).

To learn about another lost ark, see “Finders of a Real Lost Ark,” BAR 07:06, by Eric M. Meyers and Carol L. Meyers.