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Judas of Galilee
Judas of Galilee fl. AD 6, a leader of the Zealots, a radical revolutionary Jewish sect. He raised an insurrection against the taxation census of Cyrenius (AD 6) on the grounds that no one but God was Israel's master, and he was killed. He is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles.
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The construction of Galilee as a place for the historical Jesus--Part I.
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...scholars understood and constructed Galilee as a place for the historical Jesus...traces the development of the image of Galilee from the early nineteenth century until the Third Quest. The picture of Galilee in the nineteenth century was influenced...
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The construction of Galilee as a place for the historical Jesus--part II.
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Third Quest for the Historical Jesus, Galilee again came into the center of discussion...the degree of Hellenistic influence in Galilee, and new issues. Among the latter are...between cities and peasant villages in Galilee. There are many challenges at the beginning...
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African priest finds racism, grace in Galilee. (Fr. Tom Tshabalala; Lake Galilee, Israel) (Interview)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 12/16/1994; ; 618 words
; GALILEE, Israel -- Fr. Tom Tshabalala, a South African Franciscan, likens himself to Moses. Both men wandered far from home out...shrines. For the past few months, he's overseen the Shrine of Peter's Primacy, a little garden church on the shore of Lake Galilee. Here is where Jesus supposedly named St. Peter as the ...
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A matter of water: a Presbyterian minister in Israel.(LETTER FROM GALILEE)
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 3/1/2009; ; 455 words
; ...Promenade, along the shore of the Sea of Galilee in Tiberias there is a metal structure...that pumping of water from the Sea of Galilee, Israel's primary fresh water reservoir...Security is an Israeli obsession. But in Galilee security is no longer a matter of armed...
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The beat of a different drum. (new Galilee Symphony Orchestra conductor Nabil Azzam)
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 2/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Nabil Azzam, founder and conductor of the Galilee Symphony Orchestra, is almost certainly...his ground-breaking work on founding the Galilee's first symphony orchestra, Azzam talked...prefer to be building an orchestra in the Galilee rather than teaching American kids how...
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Vatican puts holy sites before people, he says. (Elias Chacour, a Melkite priest from Galilee laments the irony of the dwindling number of Palestinian Christians in the major place of Christian shrines)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 10/31/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...there, a prominent Melkite priest from Galilee has charged. That harsh assessment came...holy sites in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Galilee. Chacour was a featured speaker at an...Prize. I've been a priest for 33 years in Galilee and I've never been helped by a Vatican...
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Building peace: one life at a time.(LETTER FROM GALILEE)(Kids4Peace)
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 5/1/2009; ; 497 words
; ...Raineh on the outskirts of Nazareth in Galilee. Kids4Peace is an interfaith educational...accepted my current locum position in Galilee, I discovered that my new colleague in ministry ran a Galilee chapter of Kids4Peace. His group finished...
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Verger, Winter Afternoon, Galilee Chapel.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 10/1/2005; ; 46 words
; Verger, Winter Afternoon, Galilee Chapel Durham Cathedral, March 2004 Careful, here, as polishing cloth across a floor, police officer, voyeur. Air closes over the...
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ISRAEL: HUNDREDS OF TOURISM WHOLESALERS ATTEND CONVENTION IN GALILEE.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 2/12/2001; 62 words
; ...Indonesia, attended an international tourism convention which opened in the Galilee on Thursday, HATZOFEH reported. The convention was designed to introduce wholesalers to the Galilee's various tourist attractions, especially the pilgrimage sites sacred...
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Israel may relocate a jail in the Galilee on the recommendation of archaeologists who have discovered on its grounds the remnants of what is said to be the oldest church ever found in the Holy Land.(Briefly noted)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 2/21/2006; 162 words
; * Israel may relocate a jail in the Galilee on the recommendation of archaeologists who have discovered on its grounds the remnants of what is said to be the oldest church...
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Galilee
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, region, N Israel, roughly the portion north of the plain of Esdraelon . Galilee was the chief scene of the ministry of Jesus. The Sea of Galilee (see Galilee, Sea of ), the countryside, and the towns— Cana , Capernaum , Tiberias , Nazareth...
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galilee
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
galilee porch or chapel at the entrance of a church. XV. — OF. galilée — medL. galilæa ; the name of a province of Palestine. First recorded of Durham cathedral, and taken up thence by antiquarian writers of XIX.
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Galilee, Sea of
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Galilee, Sea of In northern Palestine; also called ‘the Lake of Gennesaret’ (Luke 5: 1) and ‘the Sea of Tiberias...
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Testament of Our Lord in Galilee
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Testament of Our Lord in Galilee, also known as the Epistle of the Apostles . An apocryphal document, written c. 150, in the form of an encyclical sent out by the Apostles. It purports to record conversations between them and the Risen Christ.
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Sea of Galilee
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Water Carrier Project uses the Sea of Galilee as a reservoir for water pumped south...on. In the Old Testament the Sea of Galilee was called the Sea of Chinnereth or...from nearby geographical features—Galilee, Gennesaret, or Tiberias.
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