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 The synagogue, located in Capernaum on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, is mentioned a number of times in the New Testament as the place where Jesus taught and performed miracles. The ruins found today are of the second synagogue dating from the 4th-century which was built on the site of the one dating from the 1st-century. The Capernaum synagogue is one of the oldest synagogues in the world. READ MORE Herod's Fortress  The cliff top fortress of Masada is located about 30 miles southeast of Jerusalem. Rising 450 meters above the shores of the Dead Sea, at the western end of the Judean Desert, it provides a natural defensive position with steep mountains on all sides.A fortress is believed to have existed on the site since the time of Jonathan Maccabeus in the 2nd century BCE and it is known that Herod the Great, King of Judaea (37-4 BCE) fled to it in 42 BCE when the Parthians took Jerusalem. READ MORE |
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