Site-Seeing: Digging Through Time at Chorazin

If you find yourself navigating the winding roads north of the Sea of Galilee, past the familiar markers of Capernaum and the Mount of Beatitudes, a small detour brings you to one of the Galilee’s most evocative and underappreciated archaeological gems: the ancient Jewish village of Chorazin. Set atop a rugged basalt plateau, Chorazin offers a striking glimpse into Jewish life in the late Roman and Byzantine periods and—if you want to get your hands dirty—a rare chance to excavate a site where Jesus may have actually taught. Chorazin is perhaps best known from Jesus’s sharp rebuke of the town […]