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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 ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
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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 ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 11:05, 22 January 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,837 words) - 07:37, 27 February 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 14:56, 12 February 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,392 words) - 20:38, 17 May 2023
- 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 ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- Henry Chadwick, The Church in Ancient Society. From Galilee to Gregory ... * Chadwick, Henry, The Church in Ancient Society. From Galilee to ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:36, 25 November 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,654 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 11:15, 24 May 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,200 words) - 15:58, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- these letters went to the inhabitants of Galilee and southern Palestine dealing ... Messiah, such as Theudas and Judas of Galilee, Gamaliel advises his fellow ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- instead a town of the same name in Galilee. However, for two thousand ... ==Bethlehem, Galilee== Some researchers believe that these New Testament ...17 KB (2,648 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- Philip and notes that he came "from Cana in Galilee." Hence, some commentators have concluded that Bartholomew was the bridegroom at the wedding ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- 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. ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- Organization) and Hezbollah raided Galilee. In retaliation, Israel invaded Lebanon in 1978 and in 1982 adding an external dimension to the war ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 02:56, 27 February 2023
- the mountainous region between the Sea of Galilee to the north and Judea to ... of Syria Iudaea, the other two being Judea and Galilee. ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- sea level, Safed is the highest city in the Galilee. Although Safed ... a fortified Jewish town in the Upper Galilee mentioned in the writings ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 18:37, 22 December 2022
- as well as many towns in Judea and Galilee. Judas, nicknamed Maccabeus ... geographical knowledge of the Judea, Galilee, and their environs, but ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- *Wink, Walter. 1999. The Powers That Be. Galilee Trade. ISBN 0385487525. ==External Links== All links retrieved November 15, 2022. ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 02:44, 16 November 2022
- followed by two collections of poetry: The Galilee Hitch-Hiker (1958), and ... * The Galilee Hitch-Hiker, 1958 * Lay the Marble Tea, 1959 ...15 KB (2,156 words) - 20:54, 16 April 2023
- Henry Chadwick, The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to Gregory ... * Chadwick, Henry. The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- shown on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee; Shimon's later center ... a flourishing school at Tekoa, probably in Galilee rather than the biblical ...16 KB (2,585 words) - 14:13, 27 January 2023
- at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee near an Arab village called ... Jewish immigrants were familiar with. The Galilee was swampy, the Judean Hills ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 03:59, 6 October 2022
- *The return to Galilee through Samaria (4) *The pool of Bethesda, Jesus ... according to John are at the Sea of Galilee |John|6:22-71, the temple ...37 KB (5,608 words) - 20:09, 13 September 2023
- Peter. A fisherman from Bethsaida "of Galilee" (John 1:44; 12:21). ... # Philip: from Bethsaida "of Galilee" (John 1:44, 12:21) ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- John XXIII: Shepherd of the Modern World. (Galilee Trade, 1987), 303. ... John XXIII: Shepherd of the Modern World. Galilee Trade, 1987. ISBN 0385235372 ...21 KB (3,268 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
- Hyrcanus annexed Trans-Jordan, Samaria, Galilee, Idumea (also known as Edom ... split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into Galilee, Samaria & Judea with ...39 KB (6,358 words) - 14:51, 7 June 2023
- south. He was defeated by Ptolemy Lathyrus in Galilee, but then made an alliance with Ptolemy's estranged mother, Cleopatra III of Egypt, who ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 14:25, 18 July 2023
- in 1875, after an attack by locals in the Galilee, at Safed (Silberman 1982). ... is established at the point in the upper Galilee where Conder and Kitchener’s ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 14:28, 9 February 2022
- God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin ...12 KB (2,039 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- *1633 Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee (formerly at the ... [[Image:Rembrandt Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee.jpg|thumb ...23 KB (3,470 words) - 03:58, 8 December 2022
- arch of a third or fourth century synagogue in the Galilee was found. Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_19 ...12 KB (2,021 words) - 19:53, 9 February 2023
- road connecting the center of Israel with lower Galilee and the northern region. Thr modern Kibbutz of Megiddo is nearby, just a little less than ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- this to women, as well as men. If the women of Galilee had not left their homes they would not have followed Jesus. If Phoebe had not left her home ...12 KB (1,895 words) - 14:52, 27 April 2023
- # The discourses and actions of Christ in Galilee (4:12–26:1). ... *Galilee preaching tour (4:23-25) Sermon on the Mount *Sermon on the ...26 KB (3,813 words) - 14:10, 30 December 2022
- that while fishing in the Lake of Gennesaret (Galilee), Simon and his brother Andrew were called by Jesus, with no previous contact, to be his followers ...28 KB (4,305 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- St. Jude was born into a Jewish family in Paneas, a town in Galilee later rebuilt by the Romans and renamed Caesarea Philippi. In all probability ...13 KB (2,095 words) - 06:38, 28 February 2023
- four fishermen from among those at the Sea of Galilee. These are Simon (later called Peter) and his brother Andrew, and the brothers James and John ...15 KB (2,501 words) - 03:45, 31 July 2022
- sources, Andrew was born at Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee (John 1:44). Later, he lived at Capernaum (Mark 1:29) where he was likely exposed to Greek ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- known as Yam Kinneret and is now called Lake Galilee. In these texts, Asherah is the consort of the god El. One source refers to the "70 sons ...14 KB (2,179 words) - 04:03, 18 August 2023
- . Later Solomon cedes to Hiram 20 towns in Galilee, with which Hiram was not ... border by selling 20 cities of the Galilee to Hiram, the king of Tyre ...29 KB (4,624 words) - 00:50, 4 February 2023
- the older political units of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria into the new province of Syria Palaestina (Palestine), a name that has since passed ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 07:58, 20 September 2023
- in order to bring water, mainly from the Sea of Galilee, to the Negev. Irrigation is practiced, which produces crops of grain, fodder, fruits, and vegetables ...13 KB (2,056 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- The Israeli Druze live mostly in the Galilee (70 percent) and around Haifa (25 percent), and the Jordanian Druze can be found in Amman and Zarka ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- and hardship of her people who lived in Galilee. Through her compassion and wisdom the people in the hill country united around her, raising ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- and even the miracle at the Wedding of Cana in Galilee. However, Jesus' baptism was the event predominantly commemorated. The date of the ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 19:09, 13 February 2024
- also occupied the Golan Heights, which overlook Galilee. From Camp David (1979) on, a two-state solution to the Palestinian situation has been accepted ...16 KB (2,421 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- Negev, east of the Jordan, and in villages in the Galilee region, and in the Jordan River valley. Jewish communities expelled from Judea were sent, ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- at Hazor, about ten miles north of the sea of Galilee, show that an unusually strong earthquake occurred about 760 B.C.E. Amos was a contemporary ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- views coming from China on Copernicus and Galilee, like Hong Tae-yong (1731-1783) who visited China he came to the conclusion that the earth ...16 KB (2,572 words) - 09:49, 26 January 2023
- # Inclusion of the whole or part of Western Galilee in the Jewish territory ... # Galilee should be defined as Jewish territory. # Haifa should be ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- the Resurrection, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. |John|21:9 ===Use=== Societies of Christians in Hellenistic Greece and Roman Greece, prior ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- father, he "withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth." Joseph plays no further role in Matthew ...18 KB (2,901 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- the north lie the mountains and hills of Galilee; farther to the south are ... dominated by the Jordan River, the Sea of Galilee (an important freshwater ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- Jesus' ministry in Galilee *Good News (4:14–15) *Rejection in ... *Galilee preaching tour (4:42–44) *Calling Simon, James, John (5:1–11) ...37 KB (5,253 words) - 12:12, 24 January 2023
- [[Image:Lichen 07.JPG|thumb|230px|Lichen, the Upper Galilee, Israel]] A lichen is a composite organism composed of a fungus (the mycobiont) in ...19 KB (2,789 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- 15:49, which says, "Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be ...20 KB (3,259 words) - 16:00, 11 November 2022
- of thy house; for, lo, I go to my brethren into Galilee" (Gospel of Nicodemus). Ibid. According to the Gospel of Nicodemus, Joseph testified ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 02:14, 11 August 2022
- he would walk on the sandy shore near the Sea of Galilee. John reports seeing Jesus naked on occasion, and that "the earth was lit by his feet and ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- created to transfer water from the Sea of Galilee in the north of the country ... Operation, or Operation Peace for the Galilee, the war had become a burden ...37 KB (5,856 words) - 11:15, 24 May 2023
- up to the feast yourselves…" He stayed in Galilee, but when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he himself also went up, not publicly ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- (Luke 1:5; 1:36). Mary resided at Nazareth in Galilee while betrothed to Joseph of the House of David (Luke 1:26). During their betrothal--the first ...20 KB (2,940 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- Empire, many of the religious leaders of Judea and Galilee fled to the east. At the academies of Pumbeditha and Sura near Babylon, Rabbinic Judaism based ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- the north lie the mountains and hills of Galilee; farther to the south are ... dominated by the Jordan River, the Sea of Galilee (an important freshwater ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- Phasael administering Judea, and Herod ruling Galilee. In 40 B.C.E., however, Aristobulus's son Antigonus overthrew Hyrcanus II and named himself ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- Partial translation by Chris Turner (Paris: Galilee, 1989), full translation by Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton (London: The Athlone Press, 2000). ISBN 978 ...23 KB (3,142 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- around 34 C.E., shortly after his ministry in Galilee (3 Nephi 11 to 3 Nephi 26). Many of the writers in the book teach about Jesus. There are 239 chapters ...29 KB (4,400 words) - 00:27, 19 November 2023
- she came from, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Her name distinguishes her from the other Marys referred to throughout the New Testament. Yet ...24 KB (3,839 words) - 16:10, 7 November 2022
- and his sister Berenice fled the city to Galilee where they later gave themselves ... soldiers, the Romans quickly swept across Galilee and by 68 C.E., marched ...53 KB (7,893 words) - 19:45, 12 July 2023
- would not enter Israel, and the Sea of Galilee, but rather flow into a ... civilian communities in north-eastern Galilee, from positions on the Golan ...66 KB (10,247 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- [[Image:Galilee.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Galileo Galilei]] Many commentators consider that Galileo developed this position merely to justify his own ...28 KB (4,354 words) - 03:55, 18 April 2024
- Jewish Christians (sometimes called also Hebrew Christians or Christian Jews) is a term which can have two meanings. The first describes the ...32 KB (4,998 words) - 08:45, 3 April 2024
- on the southern foothills of The Lower Galilee. Most of the remains date from the second to fourth centuries C.E. The inscriptions in the catacombs ...26 KB (3,983 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- (Luke 1:5; 1:36). Mary resided at Nazareth in Galilee while betrothed to Joseph of the House of David (Luke 1:26). During their betrothal—the first ...30 KB (4,633 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- temples at Alalakh in Syria and Hazor in the upper Galilee; a ninth century B.C.E. temple at Tell Tayinat also follows this plan. Phoenician temples ...30 KB (4,700 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- twelve. 7:1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. In Greek, the earliest ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- whom he debates. After this, the church in Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoys a period of growth and relative peace. (9:31) ===Gentile converts=== ...37 KB (5,957 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- Bethlehem, and the holy places of Galilee, and then went to Egypt, the home of the great heroes of the ascetic life. At the Catechetical School ...33 KB (5,192 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- *1925: Francis Turville-Petre finds the 'Galilee Man' or 'Galilee Skull' in the Zuttiyeh Cave in Wadi Amud in The British ...80 KB (11,439 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- period. They later returned to Nazareth in Galilee, their hometown (Matt. 2:23 ... Antipas, because his jurisdiction included Galilee and before the Roman governor ...78 KB (12,289 words) - 02:54, 1 August 2022
- *Judas of Galilee (Ezekias) (c. 4 B.C.E.) *Simon (c. 4 B.C.E.) *Athronges (c. 4 – 2? B.C.E.) *Jesus of Nazareth (c. 4 B.C.E. – c. 30 C.E.) ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- history agree that Jesus was a Jewish teacher from Galilee who was regarded as a healer, was baptized by John the Baptist, was accused of sedition against ...44 KB (6,589 words) - 16:59, 22 February 2023
- Tiberias and marched to Damascus, around the Sea of Galilee by way of Banias. There were perhaps 50,000 troops in total. ===Siege of Damascus=== ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- A miracle (from Latin: miraculum, "something wonderful") refers to an act or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- and Minister for the Development of the Negev, Galilee and Regional Economy. ====Presidency: 2007–2014==== [[File:Shimon Peres - World Economic ...47 KB (6,756 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- shifted from the Judea region to the Galilee. The land was conquered by the Byzantine Empire in 638 C.E. during the initial Muslim conquests. ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- Olives and soon left Judea towards the Sea of Galilee on his way to Damascus. After his dramatic escape from crucifixion, prophet Jesus traveled to ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- 9:10-14)—Hiram of Tyre is given 20 towns in Galilee by Solomon, in exchange for a large quantity of gold. Hiram, however, is not pleased with them. ...60 KB (9,862 words) - 21:32, 6 February 2024
- tried to advance towards the Sea of Galilee and Nafah. At this point, the Brigade stopped functioning as a cohesive force, although the surviving ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- was introduced to Phoenicia from neighboring Galilee soon after the time of Jesus of Nazareth (c.2 B.C.E. to c. 29 C.E.). ===Arab rule and the ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- In the hill town of Safed in Galilee, the Zohar had a particular impact on such notable mystics as Moses Cordovero (1522–1570) and Isaac Luria ...68 KB (10,629 words) - 21:49, 4 October 2022
- Primacy of [[Saint Peter|St. Peter]] on the Sea of Galilee. The church is on the site where, according to Catholic tradition, the resurrected Jesus Christ ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- lakes and contain salt water, but the Sea of Galilee is a freshwater lake. There is no accepted technical definition of sea amongst oceanographers ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- also the language spoken by the Jews in Judea and Galilee at the time of Jesus. This language was not used by the vast majority of the Christians in the ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
