Studies of Regional Religosity around the Sea of Galilee

1998年，我们集中精力挖掘了从铁器时代到希腊化时期的EN-GeV遗址上的土丘的高处。在那幢柱式建筑物的下面发现了另一座较大的柱式建筑物，这是我们在1990至1992年间进行的上一次探险中发现的。这座新建筑可能可以追溯到公元前9世纪，而上面的一座公元前8世纪的建筑。此外，在被认为是铁器时代的城墙之上，发现了一处希腊化时代的居住地。1999年，我们几乎可以确定那座更大的柱式建筑的平面图，并确保这座建筑的规划要详细得多，每个角落都有正确的角度和精确的测量，上面柱式建筑的雾气石柱很可能来自那座较老的建筑，但这两座建筑的用途仍然不确定。两排城墙被认为是当时巴勒斯坦典型的平房墙。快到季节结束时，在希腊化住宅的上方发现了一座有趣的雾化窑。这些发现和许多陶器为我们的研究提供了宝贵的材料。1999年主要对加利利和戈兰高地地区的宗教遗址进行了研究，因为en-Gev正好位于这些地区的边界上。我们主要关注的是把握这两个地区希腊化、犹太化和拜占庭基督教生活方式之间的宗教和文化关系。福音文献中提到的地方，耶稣被说访问的地方，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，但提出了更多的问题。

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.