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Kursi-Israel

Monday, June 22, 2009

Kursi, Israel is the ruins of a Byzantine Christian monastery and now an Israeli national park.The site is located east of the Sea of Galilee on the bank of a river bed descending from the Golan Heights. It is significant to many Christians and Jews because it has been identified by tradition as the site where Jesus healed two men possessed by demons (Matthew 8: 28-33). The ruins of the monastery were first unearthed by road construction crews, and the major excavation took place between 1971 and 1974 run by Vassilios Tzaferis for the Israel Antiquities Authority. Photos by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye

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