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Sunday, March 21, 2004
NAZARETH
History
Nazareth was settled from the Middle Bronze Age onwards and silos, cisterns and oil presses show that it has been an agricultural village for several millennia.
Jesus was raised in Nazareth and the Christian religion had its beginnings here. The modern Hebrew word for Christians, ``Notzrim,'' derives from the name of the town. There are numerous references in the New Testament to Nazareth, particularly to Jesus being chased out of the town after claiming to be the Messiah (Luke 4:21).
The Romans devastated Nazareth during the Jewish Revolt. After the collapse of Bar Kochba's rebellion, the city became a Jewish town made up of many refugees from Judaea.
The Byzantines expelled the Jews who had earlier sided with the invading Persians. Nazareth's Christian shrines were definitively located and the first churches were built during Constantine's reign.
The Moslems destroyed the city but the churches were rebuilt by the Crusaders. Nazareth was completely devastated by Sultan Beibars in 1263 and lay desolate for some 400 years. Thereafter the Franciscans returned under the tolerant rule of the Druze ruler, Fakhr al-Din.
Napoleon's troops held it briefly in 1799, when it was reclaimed by the Turks.
Before the outbreak of World War I the Germans established their military headquarters for Palestine in Nazareth. It surrendered to the British in 1918.
The town fell to Israeli troops two months after Independence and was the town with the largest concentration of Arabs in the pre-1967 borders.
Upper Nazareth received its first settlers in 1957, a factor that brought car assembly plants and textile, food and furniture factories to its environs.
The Galilee town of the Annunciation, where Jesus spent much of his youth nestles between rolling hills. Its spiked churches are overshadowed by the charcoal-grey roof of the monumental Basilica of the Annunciation, built over the ruins of churches dating from the 4th century. It is the largest church in the Middle East.
Churches rise over two places believed to be where the Archangel Gabriel informed Mary of the imminent birth of Jesus. Others shelter the home of the carpenter, Joseph, the well from which Mary drew water, and the mount from where Jesus escaped his angry congregation: ``Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country'' (Luke 4:24).
At the 200-year-old Maronite church in the Latin quarter, mass is said in Arabic and Aramaic.
Nazrat Illit (Upper Nazareth)
This new town is on the hills northeast of the old town and is a sterling example of city planners taking aesthetic considerations into account. From a modest beginning with 1,000 settlers in 1957, Nazrat Illit now has a population of more than 34,000. Located 34 km. east of Haifa and 30 km. west of Tiberias, Nazareth overlooks the Jezreel Valley.
Climate: pleasantly cool in summer because it is set in the hills above the valley, and winter is less severe than in Upper Galilee. There are about 58,000 people living in the old city, about half of whom are Moslems and half Christians.
Please see this webshots site that has many good pictures of Nazereth and Galilee at:
http://community.webshots.com/album/73836870aCLLDs/2
open air city bazaar in Nazareth
valley via nazereth
History
Nazareth was settled from the Middle Bronze Age onwards and silos, cisterns and oil presses show that it has been an agricultural village for several millennia.
Jesus was raised in Nazareth and the Christian religion had its beginnings here. The modern Hebrew word for Christians, ``Notzrim,'' derives from the name of the town. There are numerous references in the New Testament to Nazareth, particularly to Jesus being chased out of the town after claiming to be the Messiah (Luke 4:21).
The Romans devastated Nazareth during the Jewish Revolt. After the collapse of Bar Kochba's rebellion, the city became a Jewish town made up of many refugees from Judaea.
The Byzantines expelled the Jews who had earlier sided with the invading Persians. Nazareth's Christian shrines were definitively located and the first churches were built during Constantine's reign.
The Moslems destroyed the city but the churches were rebuilt by the Crusaders. Nazareth was completely devastated by Sultan Beibars in 1263 and lay desolate for some 400 years. Thereafter the Franciscans returned under the tolerant rule of the Druze ruler, Fakhr al-Din.
Napoleon's troops held it briefly in 1799, when it was reclaimed by the Turks.
Before the outbreak of World War I the Germans established their military headquarters for Palestine in Nazareth. It surrendered to the British in 1918.
The town fell to Israeli troops two months after Independence and was the town with the largest concentration of Arabs in the pre-1967 borders.
Upper Nazareth received its first settlers in 1957, a factor that brought car assembly plants and textile, food and furniture factories to its environs.
The Galilee town of the Annunciation, where Jesus spent much of his youth nestles between rolling hills. Its spiked churches are overshadowed by the charcoal-grey roof of the monumental Basilica of the Annunciation, built over the ruins of churches dating from the 4th century. It is the largest church in the Middle East.
Churches rise over two places believed to be where the Archangel Gabriel informed Mary of the imminent birth of Jesus. Others shelter the home of the carpenter, Joseph, the well from which Mary drew water, and the mount from where Jesus escaped his angry congregation: ``Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country'' (Luke 4:24).
At the 200-year-old Maronite church in the Latin quarter, mass is said in Arabic and Aramaic.
Nazrat Illit (Upper Nazareth)
This new town is on the hills northeast of the old town and is a sterling example of city planners taking aesthetic considerations into account. From a modest beginning with 1,000 settlers in 1957, Nazrat Illit now has a population of more than 34,000. Located 34 km. east of Haifa and 30 km. west of Tiberias, Nazareth overlooks the Jezreel Valley.
Climate: pleasantly cool in summer because it is set in the hills above the valley, and winter is less severe than in Upper Galilee. There are about 58,000 people living in the old city, about half of whom are Moslems and half Christians.
Please see this webshots site that has many good pictures of Nazereth and Galilee at:
http://community.webshots.com/album/73836870aCLLDs/2
open air city bazaar in Nazareth
valley via nazereth
