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Geshur (Biblical Hebrew: גְּשׁוּר, romanized: Gəšūr) [1] was a territory in the ancient Levant mentioned in the early books of the Hebrew Bible and possibly in several other ancient sources, located in the region of the modern-day Golan Heights. [2]
Geshur (Hebrew: גְּשׁוּר, lit. Bridging) is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz on the ridge of the southern Golan Heights . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law , but the Israeli government disputes this. [ 4 ]
Archaeologists tend to agree that the capital of the kingdom of Geshur was situated at et-Tell, a place also inhabited on a lesser scale during the first centuries BCE and CE and sometimes identified with the town of Bethsaida of New Testament fame. [12] The first excavations of the site were conducted in 1987–1989, by the Golan Research ...
Geshur (Hebrew: גְּשׁוּר, lit. Bridging) is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz on the ridge of the southern Golan Heights . [2] [3] The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law , but the Israeli government disputes this. [4]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Sea of Galilee Sea of Galilee Show map of Israel Sea of Galilee Show map of Middle East Coordinates 32°50′N 35°35′E / 32.833°N 35.583°E / 32.833; 35.583 Lake type Monomictic Primary inflows Upper Jordan River and local runoff Primary outflows Lower Jordan River, evaporation ...
Tell Hadar was excavated in 1987-1998 by Moshe Kochavi and Pirhiya Beck as part of the wider "Land of Geshur Regional Project." [3] It is a relatively small and well-stratified mound of great importance for the research of cultural interactions between Syria and the southern Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages. [3]
The Golan Heights, [c] or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria.It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in the north and Wadi Raqqad in the east.
The surveyors used Syrian maps, and a Syrian triangulation post was found on top of its cairn. [6] After this initial study, serious archaeological excavations commenced in the 1980s under Israeli professors Moshe Kochavi and Yoni Mizrachi, as part of the Land of Geshur Archaeological Project. [12] [13]