. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . r of a mile broad, somewhat undulating, but ap- proximating to the character of a plain. Tubarh/eh,the modern town, occupies the northern end of thisparallelogram, and the Warm Baths the southernextremity ; so that the more extended city of theRoman age must have covered all, or nearly all ofthe peculiar ground whose limits are thus clearlydefined. The inhabitants, as of old, draw their sub-sistence in part from the neighboring lake. (Fjsii.)The place is tour and a hall hours from Nazareth, onehour from Mejdel (Magdala?), and thirteen hours,by the sh
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . r of a mile broad, somewhat undulating, but ap- proximating to the character of a plain. Tubarh/eh,the modern town, occupies the northern end of thisparallelogram, and the Warm Baths the southernextremity ; so that the more extended city of theRoman age must have covered all, or nearly all ofthe peculiar ground whose limits are thus clearlydefined. The inhabitants, as of old, draw their sub-sistence in part from the neighboring lake. (Fjsii.)The place is tour and a hall hours from Nazareth, onehour from Mejdel (Magdala?), and thirteen hours,by the shortest route, from Bduiits or Cesarea Phi-LIPPI. It is remarkable that the Gospels give us noinformation, that the Saviour, who spent so muchof His public life in Galilee, ever visited Tiberias(compare Lie. xxiii. 8). Tiberias bore a conspicuouspart in the wars between the Jews and the Sanhedrim, subsequently to the fall of Jerusa-lem, after a temporary sojourn at Jamnia and Sep-phoris, became fixed there about the middle of the. View of Ihe Town and Lake of Tiberias from the S. W.—(Fbn. second century. Celebrated schools of Jewish learn-ing nourished there through a succession of severalcenturies. (Education.) The Mishna was compiledat this place by the great Rabbi Judah Hakkodesh(a. d. 190). (Old Testament A, § 1 ; Pharisees.)The place passed, under Constantine, into the powerof the Christians; and during the Crusades was lostand won repeatedly by the different that time it has been possessed successivelyby Persians, Arabs, and Turks ; and contains now,under the Turkish rule, a mixed population of Mo-hammedans, Jews, and Christians, variously esti-mated at from two to four thousand. The Jews areabout one-fourth of the whole, and occupy a quar-ter in the middle of the town near the lake. Tibe-rias suffered terribly in the earthquake of 1837. Ti-beri-as (see above), the Sea of = the Sea ofGalilee (Jn. vi. 1, xxi. 1). Gennesaret, Sea of;Tiberias. T
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