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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-inscription-points-to-jewish-past-for-early-christian-site/
Ancient Inscription Points to Jewish Past for Sea of Galilee Site
(Times of Israel) Ilan Ben Zion - A team headed by Haifa University archaeologist Haim Cohen recently unearthed a monumental Hebrew inscription at Kursi, on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee on the Golan Heights, providing conclusive evidence that the Roman- and Byzantine-era town mentioned in the New Testament and Talmud was Jewish. Digs this month yielded a large slab of imported Greek marble on which seven lines of Hebrew and Aramaic text were carved. Haggai Misgav, a Hebrew University expert in ancient inscriptions who studied the slab on site, said the text was a standard dedicatory text from a synagogue that likely dates to around the 4th or 5th centuries CE, with script highly reminiscent of an inscription found at the base of Jerusalem's Temple Mount.