Category:Jotapata (subject)

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Jotapata / Yodfat was a Jewish town in Galilee.

Overview

The ancient Israelite settlement, destroyed by the Assyrians, was repopulated in the Hellenistic period. After Alexander Jannaeus brought it under Judean control (ca. 100 BCE), Jotapata became the Jewish administrative center for central Galilee.

During the Jewish War, Josephus fortified the site, which was taken and totally destroyed by the Romans in 67 CE (see Siege of Jotapata). Josephus himself was captured there.

The city was reestablished after the war at a nearby site by refugees from Jerusalem.

Jotapata in ancient sources

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Jotapata in scholarship

Jotapata was first identified by E. G. Schultz in 1847. Six excavation seasons were carried out at the site between 1992 and 2000, under the direction of Mordechai Aviam on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and the University of Rochester.

Jotapata in fiction

References

• Jotapata / Mark A. Chancey / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), dictionary, 842-843

External links

• Wikipedia (Yodfat) / (Siege of Yodfat)