Al-Sinnabra

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Al-Sinnabra or Sinn en-Nabra, is the Arabic place name for a historic site on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee in modern-day Israel. The ancient site lay on a spur from the hills that close the southern end of the Sea of Galilee, next to which towards its south being the tell, Khirbet Kerak or Bet Yerah,Conder, C.R.; et al. (1881), p. 403, writes: "In Bereshith Rabba c. 98 Senabrai and Beth Joreach are mentioned as near each other." H.H. Kitchener, in the 1878 Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement, p. 165, describes Sinn en-Nabra: "During the survey of the shores [of the Sea of Galilee] we made one considerable discovery: the site of Sennabris, mentioned by Josephus as the place where Vespasian pitched his camp when marching on the insurgents of Tiberias. The name Sinn en Nabra still exists, and is well known to the natives; it applies to a ruin situated on a spur from the hills that close the southern end of the Sea of Galilee; it formed, therefore, the defence against an invader from the Jordan plain, and blocked the great main road in the valley. Close beside it there is a large artificially-formed plateau, defended by a water-ditch on the south, communicating with Jordan, and by the Sea of Galilee on the north. This is called Kh. el Kerak, and is, I have not the slightest doubt, the remains of Vespasian's camp described by Josephus." one of the largest in the Levant, spanning an area of over 50 acres.The Holy Land: An Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700, Jerome Murphy O'Connor, Oxford University Press, 1980, p.159 Bet Yerah was the Hellenistic era twin city of Sennabris (),Midrash HaGadol (Genesis Rabba 98:22)Jerusalem Talmud, Megillah 1:1 (2b) as al-Sinnabra was known in Classical antiquity, and its remains are located at the same tell. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: Hellenistic - Crusader period

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