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-*SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see [[:Category:Jotapata (subject)]]
+#REDIRECT [[:Category:Jotapata (subject)]]
-*ANCIENT SOURCES: see [[Jotapata (sources)]]
-'''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==
-*See [[Jotapata (sources)]]
-==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==
-*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodfat Wikipedia (Yodfat)] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yodfat (Siege of Yodfat)]
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