The synagogue at Capernaum (K’far Nahum in Hebrew), recorded in the New Testament as one of the first places where Jesus of Nazareth spoke to the people, will be reconstructed. An agreement ...

The Gospels report that Jesus taught in Capernaum’s synagogue. One of his 12 apostles, Matthew, is described as a tax collector at Capernaum, and several more apostles as living there.

Cupid appears on Jewish sarcophagi in Rome, on paintings in Jewish catacombs in Rome and, most significantly, above the door of the synagogue at Capernaum in Israel — six of them over the main ...