Usha Village in Zebulon Valley whose modern name derives from the ancient city of Usha. Ancient Usha: 3 km. (1.8 miles) from the modern village on the site of an abandoned village are ruins of a fortified city from Roman and Byzantine Periods. It was the seat […]
Read more →Via Dolorosa (Old City of Jerusalem) Via Dolorosa – (literally sorrowful road) is also called the Way of the Cross. It is made up of a series of narrow lanes in the Christian Quarter of the Old City that according to Christian tradition was Jesus’ route from […]
Read more →Via Maris (Way of the Sea) (Isaiah 9:1) An important ancient route which connected Egypt to Aram Naharaim part of which passes through the Land of Israel. Its course from south to north passed from the Egyptian Plain, via the west coast of Sinai, through the area […]
Read more →Ways of the Bible: Way of the Arabah; Way of the Plain (Deuteronomy. 2:8) Ancient route along the length of the Arabah from south of the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Elath. Mentioned in the Bible in the account of the journeys of the Children of […]
Read more →Yavneh (Jabneel; Jabneh; Jamnia; Ybellin) (II Chronicles 26:6) Town on Coastal Plain. Site of ancient Jabneh. Ancient Jabneh: This Biblical city first called Jabneel, then Jabneh, was located in the tribal allotment of Judah. “And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the […]
Read more →Yizre’el; Jezreel (Josh. 19:18) Now a kibbutz in the Jezreel Valley, with same name as the Biblical city of Jezreel (Yizre’el in Hebrew), whose name was preserved in that of abandoned neighboring village Zar’in. Ancient Jezreel: Biblical Jezreel was included in the tribal allotment of Issachar. Saul […]
Read more →Method Data Points Included Zippori (Sepphoris) (Diocaesarea) History: First mentioned in connection with the war fought nearby by Alexander Yannai (103 BCE). In the days of Gabinius it was the center of the Galilee and seat of a small Sanhedrin. According to Christian tradition it is the […]
Read more →Zorah (Tzora) (Joshua 19: 41) Kibbutz named after the Biblical city of Zorah, identified at adjacent Tell Sora. Close by, near a spring, is a tel with remains of structures and shards from the Iron Age, and Roman and Byzantine Periods. To the southwest are 2 mounds where […]
Read more →Gaza (Azza) (Josh. 15:47) Arab city on southern Coastal Plain in heart of Gaza Strip. The Hebrew Azza is from ancient Semitic word meaning might. The archaeological mound of the ancient city is located near the shore, within the boundaries of the modern city. Gaza is the […]
Read more →Hippus (Hippos) (Susita) Ruins of an ancient city at the summit of a steep hill on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee overlooking its shores. Its beginnings was as a large Hellenistic city called Hippos (horse) in Greek and Susita in Hebrew. King Alexander Yannai […]
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