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  • The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel's largest freshwater lake. It is approximately 33 miles (53 km) in ...
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  • The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel's largest freshwater lake. It is approximately 33 miles (53 km) in ...
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  • Herodias, also Herodiade (c. 15 B.C.E. – after 39 C.E.), was a Jewish princess of the Herodian Dynasty and queen of Galilee, best known for ...
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  • through northern Israel into the Sea of Galilee and eventually empties into ... From the Sea of Galilee (the point at which the main tributaries join ...
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  • Herod Antipas (before 20 B.C.E. – after 39 C.E.) was a first-century CE Jewish-Idumean ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore the title of tetrarch ...
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  • went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis ... Northern Palestine, which encompasses Galilee and adjacent areas, and ...
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  • apostle Simon Peter, the fisherman on the Sea of Galilee, actually wrote the epistle, because of the urbane cultured style of the Greek and the lack ...
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  • Henry Chadwick, The Church in Ancient Society. From Galilee to Gregory ... * Chadwick, Henry, The Church in Ancient Society. From Galilee to ...
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  • Herod Philip II and Lysanias east of the Galilee. After the promotion Agrippa ... the cities of Tiberias and Taricheae in Galilee, and Julias, with 14 suburban ...
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  • that John has been arrested and returns to Galilee. There, he begins to preach ... There are no actual mountains in this part of Galilee, but there are ...
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  • a home in a town called Arab in the Galilee. There, he found the indifference of the Galileans on matters of Sabbath observance to be disturbing ...
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  • It is about 15.5 miles from the Sea of Galilee and about six miles west ... traditional location of Nazareth in Lower Galilee and is likely due simply ...
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  • 66-73 C.E. as a Jewish military leader in Galilee. After the Jewish garrison ... war—why he failed to commit suicide in Galilee in 67 C.E. with some of ...
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  • these letters went to the inhabitants of Galilee and southern Palestine dealing ... Messiah, such as Theudas and Judas of Galilee, Gamaliel advises his fellow ...
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  • instead a town of the same name in Galilee. However, for two thousand ... ==Bethlehem, Galilee== Some researchers believe that these New Testament ...
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  • Philip and notes that he came "from Cana in Galilee." Hence, some commentators have concluded that Bartholomew was the bridegroom at the wedding ...
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  • who had been appointed tetrarch of Galilee Perea. Antipas had also ... of his uncle Antipas, whose tetrarchy of Galilee and Perea he was then granted. ...
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  • Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ... Since Levi-Matthew worked near the Sea of Galilee (Mark 2:14), it ...
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  • Organization) and Hezbollah raided Galilee. In retaliation, Israel invaded Lebanon in 1978 and in 1982 adding an external dimension to the war ...
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  • the mountainous region between the Sea of Galilee to the north and Judea to ... of Syria Iudaea, the other two being Judea and Galilee. ...
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  • sea level, Safed is the highest city in the Galilee. Although Safed ... a fortified Jewish town in the Upper Galilee mentioned in the writings ...
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