Rami Arav is director of excavations and research for the Bethsaida Excavations Project, and professor of religion and foreign languages at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Richard A. Freund is project director of the Bethsaida Excavations Project, and director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford.

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Acknowledgements

Part One: Archaeology and Geology of Bethsaida

1. Bethsaida excavations: Preliminary Report, 1994-1996, Rami Arav

2. Catastrophic Geomorphic Processes and Bethsaida Archaeology, Israel, John F. Stroder Jr, Michael P. Bishop, Kevin J. Cornwell, Moshe Inbar

3. Two First-Millennium Cylinder Seals from Bethsaida (et-Tell), Baruch Brandl

4. The Coins of the Tetrarch Philip and Bethsaida, Arie Kindler

5. The Coin Finds at the Excavations of Bethsaida, Arie Kindler

6. The Fishing Implements and Maritime Activities of Bethsaida-Julias (et-Tell), Sandra Fortner

Part Two: Literature of Bethsaida

7. An Introduction to the Excavations of Bethsaida (et-Tell) from a New Testament Perspective, Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn

8. The Two Maacahs, Ketziah Spanier

9. The Honorific Naming of Bethsaida-Julias, John T. Greene

10. A Tale of Two Julias: Julia, Julias, and Josephus, Mark D. Smith

11. The Destruction of Bethsaida: the Evidence of 2 Esdras 1:11, Fred Strickert

12. Bethsaida and a First-Century House Church?, Mark Appold

13. Medieval Pilgrim Accounts of Bethsaida and the Bethsaida Controversy, Elizabeth McNamer

14. The Incense Shovel of Bethsaida and Synagogue Iconography in Late Antiquity, Richard A. Freund

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