Galilee

Galilee

1. Sea of. Also called: Lake Tiberias, Lake Kinneret. a lake in NE Israel, 209 m (686 ft.) below sea level, through which the River Jordan flows. Area: 165 sq. km (64 sq. miles)

2. a northern region of Israel: scene of Christ's early ministry

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galilee

A narthex or chapel at the entrance of a church; often used for worship.

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Galilee

Jesus’s area of activity. [Christianity: Wigoder, 203]

See: Christ

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Galilee

 

a historic region in northern Palestine. Its original population were Horites and Canaanites, but in the 13th-12th centuries B.C. it was seized and settled by the Israelites. Its main centers are Sepphoris, Gischala, and Tiberias. According to Christian tradition, Galilee was the chief region where Jesus did his preaching. At the end of the second century B.C., Galilee was united with Judea. In the first century B.C. and the first century A.D. it was the scene of popular uprisings against the Judaic slaveholding aristocracy, which was intimately connected with Rome, and against Roman puppet kings, including Herod and Agrippa II.

REFERENCE

Livshits, G. M. Klassovaia bor’ba v ludee i vosstaniia protiv Rima. Minsk, 1957.

D. G. REDER

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