Biblical Archaeology Review

Our ceramic evidence from the foundation strata of the building date founding to the early Roman period and carbon-14 dating of the mortar from foundation stones date founding to C.E. 4–224 (95% accuracy).

Douglas Edwards, “Khirbet Qana: From Jewish Village to Christian Pilgrim Site,” in John H. Humphrey, ed., The Roman and Byzantine Near East, vol. 3., Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 49 (Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2002), p. 129.

See James Strange, “Cana of Galilee,” in David Noel Freedman, ed., Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 1 (New York: Doubleday, 1992), p. 827.

The excavations of Khirbet Cana were initiated by the late Douglas Edwards (University of Puget Sound) in 1998. I joined the excavations in 2000 as field director and in 2008 became the codirector. Doug published several articles on Khirbet Cana and was working on a comprehensive report on the excavations when he died of cancer in the fall of 2008.

“The Story of the Passion of Christ: A New Ethiopic Apocryphon Attributed to Salome, Elizabeth, and Mary of Magdala,” in Alessandro Bausi, Alessandro Gori and Gianfrancesco Lusini, eds., Linguistic, Oriental and Ethiopian Studies in Memory of Paolo Marrassini (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), pp. 607–628.

Herbert Thompson, ed. and trans., The Gospel of St. John according to the Earliest Coptic Manuscript (London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1924).

Zeyad Al-Salameen and Hani Falahat, “An Inscribed Nabataean Bronze Object Dedicated to Obodas the God from Wadi Musa, Southern Jordan,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 146 (2014), p. 295.

For more information about the oil lamp and its excavation, see Rami Arav, Kate Raphael, Carl Savage, Nicolae Roddy, Toni Fisher and Gregory C. Jenks, The Consortium for the Bethsaida Excavations Project, License G-46/2014, Report on the 2014 Excavation Season (2014).

Michael L. Satlow, How the Bible Became Holy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 1.

See Targum Onqelos Numbers 21:17–19 and Targum Neofiti Numbers 21:17–20.