12/28/2023 0 Comments Wave top behr paint![]() Sea of Tiberias is also the name mentioned in Roman texts and in the Jerusalem Talmud, and it was adopted into Arabic as Buḥayret Ṭabariyyā ( helpįrom the Umayyad through the Mamluk period, the lake was known in Arabic as "Bahr al-Minya", the "Sea of Minya", after the Umayyad qasr complex, whose ruins are still visible at Khirbat al-Minya. ![]() In the New Testament, the term "sea of Galilee" ( Greek: θάλασσαν τῆς Γαλιλαίας, thalassan tēs Galilaias) is used in the gospel of Matthew 4:18 15:29, the gospel of Mark 1:16 7:31, and in the gospel of John 6:1 as "the sea of Galilee, which is of Tiberias" (θαλάσσης τῆς Γαλιλαίας τῆς Τιβεριάδος, thalassēs tēs Galilaias tēs Tiberiados), the late 1st century CE name. Toward the end of the first century CE, the Sea of Galilee became widely known as the Sea of Tiberias after the city of Tiberias founded on its western shore in honour of the second Roman emperor, Tiberius. The word "Galilee" comes from the Hebrew Haggalil (הַגָלִיל), which literally means "The District", a compressed form of Gelil Haggoyim "The District of Nations" (Isaiah 8:23). ![]() Sea of Galilee, Sea of Tiberias, Lake Tiberias Ginosar is yet another name derived from "Kinneret". The Babylonian Talmud, as well as Flavius Josephus, mention the sea by the name "Sea of Ginosar" after the small fertile plain of Ginosar that lies on its western side. For a different etymology, see Galilee.Īll Old and New Testament writers use the term "sea" (Hebrew יָם yam, Greek θάλασσα), with the exception of Luke, who calls it "the Lake of Gennesaret" ( Luke 5:1), from the Greek λίμνη Γεννησαρέτ ( limnē Gennēsaret), the "Grecized form of Chinnereth" according to Easton (1897). The city of Kinneret may have been named after the body of water rather than vice versa, and there is no evidence for the origin of the town's name. The scholarly consensus, however, is that the origin of the name is derived from the important Bronze and Iron Age city of Kinneret, excavated at Tell el-'Oreimeh. A persistent, though likely erroneous, popular etymology of the name presumes that the name Kinneret may originate from the Hebrew word kinnor ("harp" or "lyre"), because of the shape of the lake. As the name of a city, Kinneret was listed among the "fenced cities" in Joshua 19:35. This name was also found in the scripts of Ugarit, in the Aqhat Epic. The modern Hebrew name, Kineret, comes from the Hebrew Bible, where it appears as the "sea of Kineret" in Numbers 34:11 and Joshua 13:27, and spelled כנרות "Kinerot" in Hebrew in Joshua 11:2. With the changing fate of the towns, the lake's name also changed. The lake has been called by different names throughout its history, usually depending on the dominant settlement on its shores. ![]() This is evident from the abundant basalt and other igneous rocks that define the geology of Galilee. ![]() Consequently, the area is subject to earthquakes, and in the past, volcanic activity. The Sea of Galilee is situated in northeast Israel, between the Golan Heights and the Galilee region, in the Jordan Rift Valley, the valley caused by the separation of the African and Arabian plates. Geography Sea of Galilee in relation to the Dead Sea The lake is fed partly by underground springs, but its main source is the Jordan River, which flows through it from north to south and exits the lake at the Degania Dam. Its area is 166.7 km 2 (64.4 sq mi) at its fullest, and its maximum depth is approximately 43 metres (141 ft). It is approximately 53 km (33 mi) in circumference, about 21 km (13 mi) long, and 13 km (8.1 mi) wide. It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the second-lowest lake in the world (after the Dead Sea, a saltwater lake), at levels between 215 metres (705 ft) and 209 metres (686 ft) below sea level. ![]()
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