EditorialHebrew city of Tiberias, founded by Herod Antipas (4 BC-39 AD), tetrarch of Galilee (18 AD) under the Romans, in honor of the emperor Tiberius. Engraving. Liber Chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel, 1493. Later colouration.
EditorialChrist in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Ludolf Backhuysen I (Dutch, 1630-1708), 1695, oil on canvas, 23 x 28-1/2 in. (canvas) approximately 34-1/2 x 39-1/2 x 3 in. (framed), signed and dated: L.BAKH., 1695, European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800.
EditorialGalilee abjure before the judges of the Holy Office the doctrine of the movement of the earth, Galileo Galilei swears, Signed: ULM, Fig. 6, p. 142, 1869, Louis Figuier: Vies des savants illustres: depuis l'antiquit? jusqu'au dix-neuvi?me si?cle. Paris:...
EditorialChrist calm the storm on the lake, Christ and his deciples are ashore. The boat is behind them. The apostles look at Christ in disbelief. Christ, in a light robe and with visible stigmata in his hands, makes the gesture. Around the image an ornamental ...
EditorialAscension in an Initial V, ca. 1342?50, Tempera and gold on parchment, Cutting: 6 1/16 x 6 5/16 in. (15.4 x 16cm), Manuscripts and Illuminations, Niccol? di ser Sozzo (Italian, Siena, active ca. 1334, died 1363), This initial illustrates the antiphon f...
EditorialCristoforo de Predis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. Miniature depicting Jesus returned to Galilee through the region of the Decapolis. In Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World, 1476, written b...
EditorialThe Plain of Emek Jesreel against the mountains of Galilee, Israel. The fertile Canaanite region fell to Israel in the early period of the Kingdom. Megiddo-Armageddon, in the plain, is the legendary site of the ultimate battle in the Book of Revelations.
EditorialThe Hermon range, Israel, forms the Eastern edge of the Antilebanon range. It is divided between Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. The Bible mentions it as the northernmost point of conquest of Moses and Joshua.
EditorialCristofor de Premis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. An important man asks Jesus to heal his son in Galilee. Codex De Predis. (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy.
EditorialChrist at the Sea of Galilee. Dated: c. 1575/1580. Dimensions: overall: 117.1 x 169.2 cm (46 1/8 x 66 5/8 in.) framed: 155.3 x 207 cm (61 1/8 x 81 1/2 in.). Medium: oil on canvas.
EditorialCristoforo de Predis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. Miniature depicting Jesus returned to Galilee through the region of the Decapolis. In Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World, 1476, written b...
EditorialChrist at the Sea of Galilee. Dated: c. 1575/1580. Dimensions: overall: 117.1 x 169.2 cm (46 1/8 x 66 5/8 in.) framed: 155.3 x 207 cm (61 1/8 x 81 1/2 in.). Medium: oil on canvas.
EditorialRuins of village and synagogue of Chorazim situated above Lake Genezareth. It is one of the cities reprimanded by Jesus for not repenting. (Matt.11: 20-24).
EditorialAscension in an Initial V, ca. 1342?50, Tempera and gold on parchment, Cutting: 6 1/16 x 6 5/16 in. (15.4 x 16cm), Manuscripts and Illuminations, Niccol? di ser Sozzo (Italian, Siena, active ca. 1334, died 1363), This initial illustrates the antiphon f...
EditorialCristofor de Premis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. An important man asks Jesus to heal his son in Galilee. Codex De Predis. (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy.
EditorialCristoforo de Predis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. Miniature depicting Jesus returned to Galilee through the region of the Decapolis. In Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World, 1476, written b...
EditorialGadara is the site of an exorcism in the NT, when Jesus drives two demons into the Gadarene swine (Mark 5: 1-10) Gadara was a Hellenistic-Roman town, a member of the Dekapolis. View towards the Lake of Galilee, where the swine are said to have drowned.
EditorialMenorah medallion in relief on a lintel from the ruins of the synagogue of Aphek, a village in the Golan Heights east of the Sea of Galilee, Israel.
EditorialRuins of village and synagogue of Chorazim situated above Lake Genezareth. It is one of the cities reprimanded by Jesus for not repenting. (Matt.11: 20-24).
EditorialLake of Galilee with Mount Arbel in the background. Arbel was another fortress in the Jewish war against Rome. When Roman victory seemed certain, the denfenders leapt to their deaths from a promontory.
EditorialThe Hermon range, Israel, forms the Eastern edge of the Antilebanon range. It is divided between Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. The Bible mentions it as the northernmost point of conquest of Moses and Joshua.
EditorialMount Tabor, the center of Galilee. View from the crusader castle Belvoir Place of the Transfiguration of Christ Hight above sea level: 568 m.