Bethmaus - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Bethmaus - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Bethmaus, () or Beth Maʿon (), also called Maon, was a Jewish village during the late Second Temple and Mishnaic periods, and which was already a ruin (Tell Maʿūn) when Kitchener visited the site in 1877.Conder & Kitchener (1881), p. 371. Tell Maʿūn is shown on the 1880 Survey of Western Palestine map, sheet no. 6.Cf. Conder, C.R. (1879), p. 181 It was situated upon the hill, directly north-west of the old city of Tiberias, at a distance of one biblical mile,Ishtori Haparchi (2007), p. 56, who makes mention of the village Maʿon, which he describes as being "within a Sabbath day's journey to the west of Tiberias." The editor of the volume has identified the site as Beth Maʿon, mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud, Sotah 1:8, and Baba Metziah 7:1. Ishtori Haparhi had mistaken this Maʿon in Galilee for being the one where David and his men took refuge from King Saul, in I Samuel 23:24. rising to an elevation of above sea-level. It is now incorporated within the modern city bounds of Upper Tiberias. Others place the ancient Bethmaus (Ma'on) where is now the Arab ruin, Khirbet Nadhr ad-Din, saying that with the passing of time, the old namesake was transferred to Tell Maʿūn, a short distance away.M. Aviam & P. Richardson, "Josephus` Galilee in Archeological Perspective", 177-201 Read more on Wikipedia
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