1666: Sea of Galilee and Other Names Jul 7, 2019

The Sea of Galilee, though known to many people worldwide is not actually a sea. It is, however, a lake known today as both 'Lake Tiberias' and 'Lake Kinneret', and the name has been different through history, depending upon who controlled the area. The first of those names comes from a nearby town named after the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it has existed alongside 'Galilee' since that time, even in the Bible: "the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias" ("θαλάσσης τῆς Γαλιλαίας τῆς Τιβεριάδος"). 'Kinneret', the modern name, shares a name with an ancient city mentioned in the Bible, but no one knows which was named after the other one.

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