both articles and was excited about the find in Tiberias especially. This excerpt [According to Dr. Hartal, from the year 427 CE the Church issued a decree prohibiting the placement of crosses in mosaic floors in order to prevent them from being stepped on. "The presence of so many crosses in the floors of the church that was exposed here thus confirms the church dates to the period prior to the ban," he said.] with the fact that they believe the church was in a Jewish precinct leads me to believe that the congregation were christian Sabbath keepers. Or in other words, I believe the church predates the decree that shifted the Holiness of the Seventh-day Sabbath, Saturday, over to Sunday. According to Dr Hartal the church must predate 427 because of the crosses in the floor mosaics. The decree to change the Christian day of worship was taken at the council of Laodicea in 336 CE so we have 91 years between those two decrees.
Had the congregation been Sunday worshippers they would probably not have been on friendly enough relations with the local Jewish population to build a church in center of their neighbourhood.
We know that for many years after the council of Laodicea that many christians still kept the biblical Sabbath in spite of the decree, or kept both Saturday and Sunday together to fulfill their obligation to both God and the church fathers. I feel that the newly discovered church could easily have been constructed at any time during that 91 year period.