. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. had been at the head of the sea on the plain, it wouldhave been the natural place to which they would have takenJosephus, rather than two or three miles further south. Theindirect testimony of Scripture, and that of Josephus, supportedby tradition, support the view that Bethsaida was near theplain of Gennesaret and south of Tell Hum. A short ride brought me to Tell Hum, at times
. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. had been at the head of the sea on the plain, it wouldhave been the natural place to which they would have takenJosephus, rather than two or three miles further south. Theindirect testimony of Scripture, and that of Josephus, supportedby tradition, support the view that Bethsaida was near theplain of Gennesaret and south of Tell Hum. A short ride brought me to Tell Hum, at times along theedges of ploughed fields and again plunging through deepmorasses and over mounds of earth. Close to the sea-shore is alarge building, its walls are perhaps fifteen feet high andblackened with age. The stone is marble taken from thehills behind the city, where it is yet found in abundance. Itis streaked with reddish veins, like the rock of Mount , capitals and entablatures were lying prostrate inwild confusion. Some of the pillars were short and thick,forming three-quarters of a circle; a few of them were stand-ing, others had fallen, but their bases were in situ. They were * Jos. Vit. «W w ft w a HO 1—I a iffllMB,iiiHIMi\,^\\ \ >. RUINS OF TELL HUM. 419 on the north-west side of the building and appeared to haveformed a portico to it. This edifice is certainly Jewish, forthere are carved on the entablatures, lying among tall thornsand rank weeds, wreaths of vine leaves and bunches of grapes,also the pot of manna. This was probably a synagogue, andmay be the ruins of the very one in which Christ taught theeager multitudes His eternal truth. Foundations of the houses are visible, perhaps as they stoodin the days of our Lord. They are composed of rough, unhewnbasalt, for the most part, though I noticed the stone was hewnin the foundations and walls of the larger houses. The ruinsextend north and south for more than a mile, and reach a con-siderable
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