Cities, Towns and Villages in Israel - List of Israeli Cities, Nazareth, Ra'anana, Ramat Gan, Shefa-'Amr, Ramla, Sderot, Shaghur (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 175. Not illustrated. Chapters: List of Israeli Cities, Nazareth, Ra'anana, Ramat Gan, Shefa-'amr, Ramla, Sderot, Shaghur, Baqa Al-Gharbiyye, Umm Al-Fahm, Ramat Hasharon, Nazareth Illit, Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Yavne, Yokneam, Sakhnin, Tayibe, Yehud, Migdal Haemek, Tira, Israel, Rosh Haayin, Tamra, or Yehuda, Tirat Carmel, Netivot, Rahat, or Akiva, Qalansawe, Ofakim, Nesher, Four Holy Cities, Yehud-Monosson. Excerpt: Nazareth - Nazareth is not mentioned in pre-Christian texts and appears in many different Greek forms in the New Testament. There is no consensus regarding the origin of the name. "Nazareth" assumes several forms (Nazara, Nazaret, Nazareth, Nazarat, Nazarath) in surviving Greek versions of the New Testament. Many scholars have questioned a link between "Nazareth" and the terms "Nazarene" and "Nazoraean" on linguistic grounds, while some affirm the possibility of etymological relation "given the idiosyncrasies of Galilean Aramaic." Of the twelve appearances of the town's name in the New Testament, ten use the form Nazaret or Nazareth, and two use the form Nazara. Nazara () is generally considered the earliest form of the name in Greek, and is found in and, as well as the putative Q document, which many scholars maintain preceded 70 CE and the formation of the canonical Christian gospels. The form Nazareth appears once in the Gospel of Matthew, four times in the birth chapters of the Gospel of Luke at;,, and once in the Acts of the Apostles at . In the Gospel of Mark, the name appears only once in in the form Nazaret. The form Nazara is also found in the earliest non-scriptural reference to the town, a citation by Sextus Julius Africanus dated about 200 CE. (See "Middle Roman to Byzantine Periods" below.) The Church Father Origen (c. 185 to 254 CE) knows the forms Nazara and Nazaret. Later, Eusebius in his Onom...