collecting imperial taxes “at the nexus of interregional roads” and traffic on the Sea of Galilee. Capernaum’s synagogue, the core civic space, was where fishermen might spread messianic ideas.

View the Schwartz Artworks The Storm on the Sea of Galilee Kota Ezawa’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is a to-scale recreation of the 1633 painting of the same name by Rembrandt van Rijn.