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Show 230 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER God, built a temple. Samaritans still use an ancient celebration site on a foothill of the mountain. Most scholars regard the Samaritan ethno-religious community as one that, several cen turies before Christ, developed independently of the religious leadership of Jerusalem, but were strict Torah-observing Jews. They are very proud of their heritage. IV From Samaria the Silvers headed north into Galilee, in north Palestine. A region whose settlement went back thousands of first occupied by independent states. It years, Galilee was at later was conquered by the Egyptians, Hebrews, Assyrians, hillsides and gnarled old and Romans. With its Greeks, stony olive trees, Galilee was the area in which Jesus conducted most of his ministry. Madelyn in her teaching and personal study found great significance in this area so meaningful to His mis sion. Josephus, who wrote shortly after Jesus's death, indicated in Galilee. The major centers at the that there were 204 villages time were Tiberias, a Roman capital; Sepphoris, a town just three miles north of Nazareth; and Caesarea, a seaport on the Mediterranean that was the capital of Roman government in and was the only good port for Palestine for six hundred years the Holy Land until the development of Haifa in the twentieth century. the The Sea of Galilee, the principal geographical feature of to miles long and up eight region, is a freshwater lake, fourteen sea level. below feet 686 is lake The approximately miles wide. Sea of In the Bible it is variously called Sea of Chinnereth, the around settled Gennesaret. People Tiberias, and Lake of This fruit and growing. lake because of the fishing, agriculture, nets to make them their from fishermen called where is Jesus the "fishers of men"; where he quieted the storm and preached which the Christian Sermon on the Mount. This is a land in the from Day of Pentecost has had a continuous presence faith to the present. mentioned in the Bible are Towns around the Sea of Galilee Tiberias. Bethsaida, a Bethsaida, Magdala, Capernaum, and the Sea near where the on the northeast corner of fishing village |
