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    Sepphoris (/sɪˈfɔːrɪs/ sif-OR-iss; Ancient Greek: Σέπφωρις, romanized: Sépphōris), known in Hebrew as Tzipori (צִפּוֹרִי Ṣīppōrī) and in Arabic as Saffuriya...
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  • Battle of Sepphoris may refer to one of the following battles or sieges taking place near the village of Sepphoris: Conquest of Sepphoris by Roman client...
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    with the court from Beit Shearim to Sepphoris, where he spent at least 17 years of his life. Judah chose Sepphoris chiefly because of his ill health would...
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    state of the Roman Empire. He was responsible for building projects at Sepphoris and Betharamphtha, and for the construction of his capital Tiberias on...
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  • Sepphoris, where he became the religious head of the community; hence he is sometimes cited as Hanina of Sepphoris. When Mani also moved to Sepphoris...
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    Galilee's largest city, Sepphoris. According to Josephus, the Syrian governor Publius Quinctilius Varus responded by sacking Sepphoris and selling the population...
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  • physical or psychological quality. Johanan's early years were spent in Sepphoris in the Roman-ruled Galilee (then part of Syria Palaestina province). He...
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    The rebellion was led by Isaac of Diocaesarea (also known as Isaac of Sepphoris), aided by a certain Patricius, also known as Natrona, a name with messianic...
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    about 400. It was, however, only about 6 kilometers from the city of Sepphoris, which was destroyed and depopulated by the Romans in 4 BC, and thereafter...
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    ministry. The main part of the trail begins in Nazareth and passes through Sepphoris, Cana (Kafr Kanna), the Horns of Hattin, Mount Arbel Cliffs, the Sea of...
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  • Alexandria riots Gallus' campaign 1st Sepphoris 1st Jaffa Geva Beth–Horon Ein Gedi Galilee campaign 2nd Sepphoris Gabara Yodfat Tarichaea Gamla Mount Tabor...
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    internal division: the inhabitants of Sepphoris and Tiberias opted to maintain peace with the Romans; the people of Sepphoris enlisted the help of the Roman...
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    now known as the Academies in Galilee (principally those of Tiberias, Sepphoris, and Caesarea). It is written largely in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, a...
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    captured Narbata and also took Sepphoris, which surrendered without a fight. The Judean rebels who withdrew from Sepphoris took refuge at Atzmon hill but...
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    Mosaic from the 'Nile House' of Sepphoris, c. 2nd century CE....
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  • "The Mona Lisa of the Galilee". Detail from a mosaic floor in Sepphoris....
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    The Mishnah was redacted by Judah ha-Nasi probably in Beit Shearim or Sepphoris between the ending of the second century CE and the beginning of the third...
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    Clarke notes that Nazareth was just to the north of the larger centre of Sepphoris that had been largely destroyed in the violence after the death of Herod...
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    Alexandria riots Gallus' campaign 1st Sepphoris 1st Jaffa Geva Beth–Horon Ein Gedi Galilee campaign 2nd Sepphoris Gabara Yodfat Tarichaea Gamla Mount Tabor...
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  • Alexandria riots Gallus' campaign 1st Sepphoris 1st Jaffa Geva Beth–Horon Ein Gedi Galilee campaign 2nd Sepphoris Gabara Yodfat Tarichaea Gamla Mount Tabor...
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    divided into five conclaves: Jerusalem, Gadara, Amathus, Jericho, and Sepphoris, and during the Roman period had eleven administrative districts (toparchies):...
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    Alexandria riots Gallus' campaign 1st Sepphoris 1st Jaffa Geva Beth–Horon Ein Gedi Galilee campaign 2nd Sepphoris Gabara Yodfat Tarichaea Gamla Mount Tabor...
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    cities of Acre and Caesarea, and the castles of Belvoir, Montfort, Arsuf, Sepphoris. Israel also currently has control over the Arab-built Nimrod Castle in...
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  • Alexandria riots Gallus' campaign 1st Sepphoris 1st Jaffa Geva Beth–Horon Ein Gedi Galilee campaign 2nd Sepphoris Gabara Yodfat Tarichaea Gamla Mount Tabor...
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    "Pompey's Pillar", a monument erected by Diocletian (r. 284–305) in the Serapeum of Alexandria, represented in a mosaic from Sepphoris in Roman Palestine...
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    "Akiva, you have reminded me; once I was walking in the upper markets of Sepphoris, and I found a man of the students of Yeshu, and his name was Jacob, of...
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    administrative districts with centers in Jerusalem, Gadara, Amathus, Jericho, and Sepphoris. In 30–33 CE, Roman prefect Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth crucified...
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    lowered chronology, to the Omrides of the 9th century. Excavations in Sepphoris, in the central Galilee region, six kilometers north-northwest of Nazareth...
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    Alexandria riots Gallus' campaign 1st Sepphoris 1st Jaffa Geva Beth–Horon Ein Gedi Galilee campaign 2nd Sepphoris Gabara Yodfat Tarichaea Gamla Mount Tabor...
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  • of Judea, Jairus and his sick daughter Tamar travel from Capernaum to Sepphoris to see a doctor their friend Cleopas says can help Tamar. While the doctor...
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