Kursi, Golan Height, Israel


Kursi (Byzantine Greek Κυρσοί) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a Byzantine Christian monastery and identified by tradition as the site of Jesus' so-called "Miracle of the Swine". The site is now an Israeli national park located in the Israel-occupied side of the Golan Heights. Kursi takes its name from the Talmudic site.[1] A marble slab with Aramaic text discovered in December 2015 seems to indicate that the settlement had, as of ca. 500 CE, a Jewish or Judeo-Christian population.


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Location: Golan Heights, Israel
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