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| Keywords: The lake of Tiberias, looking towards Hermon. David Roberts. 1855.jpg The lake of Tiberias looking towards Hermon of ruins The protection of the City drew the principal scholars from the cells and mountains where they had concealed themselves from the habitual severities of Rome Under the presidency of Rabbi Judah Hakkodesh the School flourished and acquired the acknowledged title of the Capital of Jewish learning The first natural enterprise of such a School was the collection of the ancient interpretations and traditions of the Law ; and those were embodied by Rabbi Judab in the Mishna about a d 220 In the third century Rabbi Jocbanan compiled the Gemara a supplement to the Mishna about a d 270 now known as the Jerusalem Talmud In the sixth century the Babylonian Jews also compiled a Gemara named the Talmud of Babylon now more esteemed by the Jews But the School of Tiberias is said also to have produced the Masora or Canon for preserving the purity of the text in the Old Testament ” a labour whose value however the subject of controversy is admitted to be incontrovertible The civil history of Tiberias is the common recapitulation of Eastern sieges and slaughters Fortified by Justinian it fell successively into the hands of the Saracens the Crusaders Saladin the Syrians 1 and the Turks The French invasion brought Tiberias into European notice once more a d 1799 On their retreat it sank into its old obscurity and must wait another change of good or evil fortune to be known http //archive org/details/holylandsyriaidu1to2robe The Holy Land Syria Idumea Arabia Egypt Nubia 1855 1855 Originally from 1842 Creator David Roberts PD-old-auto-1923 1864 Sea of Galilee in art Tiberias in art Louis Haghe Paintings of Palestine by David Roberts | ||||
