#sepphoris

[byfaithmedia]

One hour & a half away from Nazareth, Jesus’ hometown, is Sepphoris, the City on the Hill. Here you can see the Mona Lisa of the Galilee, which is one of the most beautiful mosaics in the Holy Land & view the city Jesus probably worked in as a young man.

[byfaithmedia]

One hour & a half away from Nazareth, Jesus’ hometown, is Sepphoris, the City on the Hill. Here you can see the Mona Lisa of the Galilee, which is one of the most beautiful mosaics in the Holy Land & view the city Jesus probably worked in as a young man.

[pro-palestine]

Sepphoris, Palestine (1931)

[oh-traumer]

"Mona Lisa of the Galilee".

A late antique mosaic from the town of Sepphoris (Tzipori), Israel.

[sorryaboutthelight]

They call her "The Mona Lisa of the Galilee" and she's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

[chrysaoraelectrum]

The so-called Mona Lisa of Galilee, which is part of a large mosaic decorating the triclinium floor of a grand villa in Sepphoris, Israel.

(source: Tamara Dulova)

[thirstygargoyle]

Jesus himself was brought up in Nazareth, only six kilometres or on and a half hours’ walking distance from Sepphoris which was being rebuilt as the capital of Galilee during his youth. Some scholars maintain that Jesus and Joseph, both builders by profession, played an active part in the construction of this place: the Greek word tekton in Matthew 13:55 does not mean ‘carpenter’ as most Bibles mistranslate it, but ‘builder’. Its etymological traces can still be recognized in the modern word ‘architect’. Sepphoris, again, was a profoundly Hellenized place, as is clear from contemporary inscriptions and the magnificent theatre which was built while Jesus was a young man. Even in Palestine, plays were performed in Greek for a population remarkably familiar with that tongue. In Sepphoris, a town of 25,000 inhabitants, it is striking that the theatre was capable of seating an audience of 5,000. This suggests that a command of the language sufficient to understand Greek drama was not confined to the upper echelons of first-century Galilean society.

Carsten Peter Thiede and Matthew D’Ancona, The Jesus Papyrus, 151.

[archaeologicalnews]

Archaeologists uncover unfamiliar Jewish village in Israel

According to an August 2 press release from Samford University, religion professor Doctor James Riley Strange uncovered the remnants of an unfamiliar Jewish village in the Galilee sector of Israel. The announcement of the discovery was jointly presented by directors Strange, Mordechai Aviam of the Institute for Galilean Archaeology, and David Fiensy of Kentucky Christian University. Among the uncovered remnants are an ancient synagogue, houses, and large amounts of pottery production evidence in Shikhin, which is near the Jewish city of Sepphoris.

The archaeological sites are approximately five miles northwest of Nazareth, and are important to Jewish history as the uncovered information will help archaeologists to understand Galilean Jewish life and its economy around the creation of Christianity and the Judaism of the Talmud. Read more.