Video from James Tabor
Jesus Archaeology # 6 Exploring the "Ground Zero" HQ for the Jesus Movement
"Most people think of Jerusalem as the HQ of the emerging Jesus Movement, but the real "Ground Zero" was the city of Capernaum (Kafar Nahum--the ancient village of Nahum the prophet) on the Northwest of the Sea of Galilee. It could well be called the official "birthplace" of the Jesus movement--quite literally, in a single first-century house that has been excavated. This house became the base of operations for the revolutionary provisional government that Jesus established for the future Kingdom of God. In this video, I explore both the textual as well as the archaeological evidence, shedding additional light on the cultural background of Jesus and his followers.
Connecting the earlier ruins to the house of Peter is a reasonable process, based on the ways this 1st-century house was remembered from the late 1st century down into the Byzantine period and behind. Evidence from archaeology says the worship use of this building began as early as the second half of the First Century. It is in a cluster of some twelve houses dating from the 1st century AD, close to the ruins of a synagogue. " from the video introduction
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