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갈릴리 호수의 서쪽 해안에 위치한 도시로, 이 호수는 티베리아스 호수(바르 타바리예)라고도 불립니다. 이 도시는 헤롯 안티파스에 의해 건설되었으며, 황제 티베리우스를 기리기 위해 이름이 붙여졌습니다. 이러한 이유와 오래된 이교도 묘지가 있었기 때문에, 경건한 유대인들은 이 도시를 피했습니다. 예수께서 이 도시를 방문하셨다는 기록은 없지만, 그 근처에 자주 머무셨습니다. 유대 전쟁 중에 요세푸스 플라비우스에 의해 요새화되었으나, 로마 장군 베스파시아누스에게 문을 열었고, 베스파시아누스가 면책을 약속했던 인근 도시 타리케아 주민들의 배신적인 처형이 이루어진 장소가 되었습니다. 예루살렘이 함락되고 바르 코크바 반란 진압 후 유대인들이 유대에서 추방된 이후, 티베리아스는 유대교의 중심지가 되었습니다.
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Tiberias
a city, the modern Tubarich, on the western shore of the Sea of Tiberias. It is said to have been founded by Herod Antipas (A.D. 16), on the site of the ruins of an older city called Rakkath, and to have been thus named by him after the Emperor Tiberius. It is mentioned only three times in the history of our Lord (John 6:1; 6:23; 21:1).
In 1837 about one-half of the inhabitants perished by an earthquake. The population of the city is now about six thousand, nearly the one-half being Jews. "We do not read that our Lord ever entered this city. The reason of this is probably to be found in the fact that it was practically a heathen city, though standing upon Jewish soil. Herod, its founder, had brought together the arts of Greece, the idolatry of Rome, and the gross lewdness of Asia. There were in it a theatre for the performance of comedies, a forum, a stadium, a palace roofed with gold in imitation of those in Italy, statues of the Roman gods, and busts of the deified emperors. He who was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel might well hold himself aloof from such scenes as these" (Manning's Those Holy Fields).
After the fall of Jerusalem (A.D. 70), Tiberias became one of the chief residences of the Jews in Palestine. It was for more than three hundred years their metropolis. From about A.D. 150 the Sanhedrin settled here, and established rabbinical schools, which rose to great celebrity. Here the Jerusalem (or Palestinian) Talmud was compiled about the beginning of the fifth century. To this same rabbinical school also we are indebted for the Masora, a "body of traditions which transmitted the readings of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, and preserved, by means of the vowel-system, the pronunciation of the Hebrew." In its original form, and in all manuscripts, the Hebrew is written without vowels; hence, when it ceased to be a spoken language, the importance of knowing what vowels to insert between the consonants. This is supplied by the Masora, and hence these vowels are called the "Masoretic vowel-points."
EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary