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-'''Jotapata''' (Yodfat) was a Jewish town in Galilee.
+*DICTIONARY: see [[Jotapata]]
+*ANCIENT SOURCES: see [[Jotapata (sources)]]
-==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 after a siege. Josephus himself was captured there.
-The city was reestablished after the war at a nearby site by refugees from Jerusalem.
-==Jotapata in ancient sources==
-====Josephus, Life====
-, 234, 332, 350-357, 412-414.
-====Josephus, War====
-.57; 3.111-114, 141-339, 404-406.
-==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==
-==External links==
-*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodfat Wikipedia (Yodfat)] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yodfat (Siege of Yodfat)]
-==Select Bibliography (articles)==
-*'''Jotapata''' / [[Mark A. Chancey]] / In: [[The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), dictionary]], 842-843
 [[Category:Subjects]]
-[[Category:Places]]