Beit She'arim - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Beit She'arim - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Beit She'arim ( / / Bet Sharei)The name of site is occasionally rendered as Bet She'arāyim (). or Besara ()In the Jerusalem Talmud (Kila'im 9:3; Ketubbot 12:3 [65b]; Eruvin 1:1 [3a]), the town's name is written in an elided-consonant form, (), which follows more closely the Greek transliteration in Josephus' Vita § 24, (). was a Roman-era Jewish village from the 1st century BCE until the 3rd century CE which, at one time, was the seat of the Sanhedrin. The village was later known as Sheikh Bureik, and was depopulated in the early 1920s as a result of the Sursock Purchase. Read more on Wikipedia
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