Studies of Regional Religosity around the Sea of Galilee

1998年，我们集中精力挖掘了恩盖夫遗址从铁器时代到希腊化时期的高土堆。另一个更大的支柱建筑物被发现在该支柱建筑物之下，该支柱建筑物是我们在1990年至1992年的上一次探险中发现的。这个新的可能是从公元前世纪开始的。而上面的一个来自世纪的B。C. E.此外，在铁器时代的假定城墙上方发现了一个希腊化时代的居住地。在1999年，我们几乎可以确定那个更大的支柱建筑的平面图，并确保这个建筑的每个角落都有正确的角度和精确的测量，并且上面支柱建筑的雾凇石柱可能是从那个更古老的建筑中取来的，但这两座建筑物的用途仍不清楚。这两排城墙被认为是一个caselet墙，这是典型的那个时代在巴勒斯坦。到了季末，人们在希腊式住宅的上方发现了一座有趣的雾凇窑。这些发现和许多陶器一起为我们的研究提供了宝贵的材料。1999年对宗教遗址的研究主要集中在加利利和戈兰高地地区，因为恩盖夫正好位于这些地区的边界。我们主要关注的是把握这两个地区的希腊化、犹太化和拜占庭基督教生活方式之间的宗教和文化关系。福音书中提到的耶稣曾访问过的地方，以及加利利和戈兰的各种犹太教堂和教堂，都被访问过，因此一些历史问题得到了解决，但更多的问题被提出来。

In 1998, we concentrated ourselves in excavating the high part of the mound at the site of En-Gev from the Iron to the Hellenistic periods. Another larger pillared building was found below that pillared building which had been discovered during the excavation made by our previous expedition during 1990 to 1992. This new one might be dated from the ninth century B.C.E. whereas the above one from the eighth century B. C. E. In addition, a site of residence from the Hellenistic era was uncovered above the supposed city wall of the Iron age.In 1999, we could almost identify the plan of that larger pillared building and assure that this building was much more minutely planned with every corner being rightly angled and precisely measured and that the rime stone pillars of the above pillared building were probably taken from that older building, but the purpose of these two buildings is still uncertain. The two rowed city walls were recognized as a casemate wall which was typical in that era in Palestine. Toward the end of the season, an interesting rime kiln was found slightly above the Hellenistic residence. These findings together with many potteries present the precious material for our research.Researches in the religious sites have been made mainly in 1999 for the areas of Galilee and Golan Hights, as En-Gev is situated exactly on the boundary of these areas. Our main concern was to grasp the religious and cultural relationships between Hellenistic, Jewish and Byzan-tine Christian ways of life in these two areas. Places refered to in the Evangelic literatures where Jesus was said to visit, and various synagogues and churches in Galilee and Golan have been visited so that some historical questions were solved but more questions were raised.