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Generically, a Galilean (/ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː ə n /; Hebrew: גלילי; Ancient Greek: Γαλιλαίων; Latin: Galilaeos) is a term that was used in classical sources to describe the inhabitants of Galilee, an area of northern Israel and southern Lebanon that extends from the northern coastal plain in the west to the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan Rift Valley to the east.
The Galilean faith (or Galilaean faith) is a term used by some people of the ancient world [1] (most notably emperor Julian) to designate Christianity.The town of Nazareth (the place of Jesus' childhood) is located in Galilee.
They were often hired as mercenary soldiers, sometimes fighting on both sides in the great battles of the times. For years the chieftains and their war bands ravaged the western half of Asia Minor as allies of one or other of the warring princes without any serious check—until they sided with the renegade Seleucid prince Antiochus Hierax ...
Some deities were venerated only in one region, but others were more widely known. [30] The Gauls seem to have had a father god, who was often a god of the tribe and of the dead ( Toutatis probably being one name for him); and a mother goddess who was associated with the land, earth and fertility [ 32 ] ( Matrona probably being one name for her).
The region's Hebrew name is Hebrew: גָּלִיל, romanized: gālíl, meaning 'district' or 'circle'. [3] The Hebrew form used in Isaiah 8:23 (Isaiah 9:1 in the Christian Old Testament) is in the construct state, leading to Hebrew: גְּלִיל הַגּוֹיִם, romanized: gəlil haggóyim "Galilee of the nations", which refers to gentiles who settled there at the time the book was ...
Bible commentator Matthew Henry references contemporary theologian Dr. Joseph Lightfoot, who identified the Pool of Siloam with the Pool of Bethesda and conjectured that the Tower of Siloam may have been supporting one of the five porches of the Pool of Bethesda mentioned in the Gospel of John, [8] and that the 18 victims were killed by the ...
Judas of Galilee, or Judas of Gamala, was a Jewish leader who led resistance to the census imposed for Roman tax purposes by Quirinius in the Judaea Province in 6 CE. [1] He encouraged Jews not to register, and those that did were targeted by his followers. [2]
Porter (2000) notes that scholars have tended to be "vague" in describing exactly what a "Galilean dialect" entailed. [6] Hoehner (1983) notes that the Talmud has one place (bEr 53b) with several amusing stories about Galilean dialect that indicate only a defective pronunciation of gutturals in the 3rd and 4th centuries. [7]