Megiddo church - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Megiddo church - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Megiddo church, near Tel Megiddo, Israel, is an archaeological site which preserves the foundations of one of the oldest church buildings ever discovered by archaeologists, dating to the 3rd century AD.E. Adams, The Ancient Church at Megiddo: The Discovery and an Assessment of its Significance, in The Expository Times, 2008. Quote: "... chronologically distinct. The structure at Megiddo is obviously not a basilica. According to Tepper, the Megiddo church is a unique ecclesiastical form. It could not have resembled the church buildings of the late third century." The ‘Megiddo Church’, as the room became known, was dated to circa 230 AD on the basis of pottery, coins, and the inscriptional style.Tepper, Yotam and Di Segni, Leah. 2006. A Christian Prayer Hall of the Third Century CE at Kefar ‘Othnay. Legio: Excavations at the Megiddo Prison 2005. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority.Adams, Edward. 2008. ‘The Ancient Church at Megiddo: The Discovery and an Assessment of its Significance’. The Expository Times 120: 62–9.Adams, Edward. 2013. The Earliest Christian Meeting Places: Almost Exclusively Houses? London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark. pp. 96–9. The site’s abandonment, circa 305 AD, is evident in the purposeful covering of the mosaic, and relates well to the crisis of 303 AD, when the Christian communities of Judeahttp://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-18.html experienced the Diocletianic Persecution. Joan E. Taylor and Ilaria L. E. Ramelli. (2021). Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity. Oxford Scholarship Online. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198867067.001.0001. pp. 295-6. Read more on Wikipedia
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