New finds suggest Second Temple priests who fled the Romans kept up holy rituals in the Galilee

Site of Magdala Stone, 1st Century Synagogue Dig - Magala

After seven years of excavations at Magdala, four rare ritual baths and a unique carved stone point to importance of ancient fishing town to priestly class By Amanda Borschel-Dan The hometown of the most popular sinner of the New Testament may also have been the seat of one of the priestly families that fled Jerusalem to…