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Mary Magdalene [a] (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene, Magdalena or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection. [1] She is mentioned by name twelve times in the canonical gospels, more than most ...
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Jan 7, 2022 · Yonat Shimron. (RNS) — The findings were heralded with bold headlines. Archaeologists excavating near the Israeli town of Migdal, also known as Magdala, had found remnants of a first-century ...
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Jul 8, 2016 · A tractor came across what would be the most important archaeological discovery in Israel in the last 50 years less than a foot beneath the soil. This find was the Magdala Stone, a carved stone relief bearing one of the earliest images of the seven-branched menorah. The stunning discovery led to further excavation.
Aug 1, 2022 · No contemporary early Roman sources mention a town called Magdala on the western shores of the Sea of Galilee. However, both the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds—the two major collections of Jewish oral law and commentary written down between the third and sixth centuries—do reference the existence of one Magdala—Migdal Nunayya, or “Tower of the Fish”—in very close proximity to ...
Feb 9, 2022 · The fourth-century Christian historian Eusebius thought Magdala was a town in Judea, not Galilee. In the Byzantine era and especially during the period of the Crusades from the 11th to the 13th centuries, a town near the Sea of Galilee known initially as el-Mejdal became a Christian pilgrimage site known as Magdala. It still is.
The current head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has called Mary Magdalene the “apostle of the apostles.”. Led by archaeologists Dina Avshalom-Gorni and Arfan Najar of the IAA, an excavation undertaken in Magdala prior to the construction of a hotel discovered a synagogue in 2009. a So far, this is the only ancient synagogue ...
Sep 1, 2022 · For a full description and discussion of the newly discovered mikva’ot in Magdala and what the Magdala excavations tell us about the moments preceding the Roman conquest of the city on the western coast of the Sea of Galilee, read Marcela Zapata-Meza and Rosaura Sanz-Rincón’s article “Excavating Mary Magdalene’s Hometown” in the May ...
