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Gerasa (Judaea) (Greek: Γέρασα) was an ancient Jewish town mentioned by the historian Josephus (The Jewish War, 4.9.1) as being sacked by the Imperial Roman army under Lucius Annius during the First Jewish-Roman War.
Jerash is the site of the ruins of the Greek city of Gerasa, also referred to as Antioch on the Golden River. [ 19 ] [ 2 ] Ancient Greek inscriptions from the city support that the city was founded by Alexander the Great and his general Perdiccas , who allegedly settled aged Macedonian soldiers there during the spring of 331 BC, when he left ...
The Decapolis region is located in modern-day Jordan (Philadelphia, Gerasa, ... Some were established under the Ptolemaic dynasty which ruled Judea until 198 BC.
Jerash is the location of Gerasa of the Decapolis. Another city known as Gerasa (Judaea) existed in antiquity, but was not associated with the Decapolis. Jerash is often known as the "Pompeii of the Middle East" and is one of the largest and best-preserved ancient cities.in the world.
Gerasa and Gadara are accounted for in historical accounts (by writers such as Pliny the Elder and Josephus) and by archaeological research. Today they are the modern towns of Jerash and Umm Qais. A third city, Hippos, was similar in character to Gadara and Gerasa, and it may fit the biblical account even better. It was located on the shore of ...
Simon bar Giora (alternatively known as Simeon bar Giora or Simon ben Giora or Shimon bar Giora, Imperial Aramaic: שִׁמְעוֹן בַּר גִּיּוֹרָא or Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹן בֵּן גִּיּוֹרָא; died 71 CE) was the leader of one of the major Judean rebel factions during the First Jewish–Roman War in 1st-century Roman Judea, who vied for control of the Jewish ...
Perea was a slender piece of land east of the Jordan River.It stretched from Wadi Yabis in the north to Wadi Mujib (Nahal Arnon) in the south. The region extended from the Jordan River westwards to the foothills eastward towards Amman (then known as Philadelphia).
The Synagogue-Church at Gerasa in northwestern Jordan was originally an ancient Byzantine era synagogue that was later converted to a church. It is located within the Decapolis city of Gerasa and is situated on high ground that overlooks the Temple of Artemis at Gerasa .