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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Magdala (Magadan)
The home town that gave Mary Magdalene her name, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Matthew says Jesus went to the region of Magdala after feeding the four thousand, where Mark calls the same area Dalmanutha. Digging there since 2009 has turned up a first-century synagogue and the carved Magdala Stone, one of the earliest pictures of the Temple's menorah.
The home town that gave Mary Magdalene her name, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Matthew says Jesus went to the region of Magdala after feeding the four thousand, where Mark calls the same area Dalmanutha. Digging there since 2009 has turned up a first-century synagogue and the carved Magdala Stone, one of the earliest pictures of the Temple's menorah.
Magdala, from the Hebrew Migdal meaning tower, sat on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee and is remembered chiefly as the hometown of Mary Magdalene. Matthew 15:39 names it as the region Jesus reached after feeding the four thousand; Mark's parallel account calls the same area Dalmanutha. Excavations at the site since 2009 have uncovered a first-century synagogue and the intricately carved "Magdala Stone," one of the earliest known depictions of the Jerusalem Temple's menorah, likely carved by someone who had seen the Temple standing before its destruction in AD 70.
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- aerial panorama of ruins at Majdal
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