Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
במעבה ההר; מחקרי הר אפרים ובנימין
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,1 (תשפא) 97-120
Keywords:
Archaeological site location
;
Hiding places History
;
Minorities
;
Tel Shush (Israel) Antiquities
;
Mishmar Ha'Emek (Israel) Antiquities
;
Eretz Israel Ethnic relations
;
History
;
Eretz Israel Antiquities Roman, Byzantine and Arab periods, 70-1517
Abstract:
The many rich finds from Tel Abu-Shusha (Mishmar Ha-‘emek) in the Jezreel Valley attest to its having been an important site in the Roman and Byzantine periods. The site is identified as Geva Philippi, a city with polis status. Based on several convincing finds, Zeev Safrai and Micha Lin also identified the site as Geva Parashim (Gaba), referred to by Josephus as the place where Herod settled his cavalry veterans; other scholars identify Geva Parashim as Khirbet Harithiya, near Sha‘ar Ha-‘Amakim. Despite the controversy over the identification of the site, the general consensus is that it was a city of gentiles. The discovery of a hillside refuge system exhibiting all the characteristics of a hiding complex therefore calls for reappraisal of the site and raises the question of why such a hiding complex should exist at a non-Jewish site. The main discussion therefore focuses not only on the identification of the site as Geva Parashim, but also on the unusual discovery of a hiding complex in a non-Jewish locality and the question of whether it was used in times of urgent need by Jews who lived in the non-Jewish city. The article addresses all these aspects and offers solutions.
Note:
With an English summary.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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