Magdala

Magdala ("tower") was a small village in Galilee, which seems to have been the birthplace of Mary Magdalene, or "Mary of Magdala", in the Christian New Testament. Magdala is its Aramaic designation; in Hebrew it was known as Migdal.

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Galilee - Mary Magdalene - Christian - New Testament - Aramaic - Hebrew

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The name given for Magdala in the Revised Version of Matthew 15:39 is Magadan. This is probably another name for the same place, or for a village so near it that the shore where Jesus landed may have belonged to either village.

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Revised Version - Jesus

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The Jewish Talmud mentions two places named Magdala. One Magdala was in the east, on the Yarmuk near Gadara (in the Middle Ages "Jadar", now Mukes), thus acquiring the name Magdala Gadar. There was another, better-known Magdala near Tiberias, Magdala Nunayya, ("Magdala of the fishes"), which would locate it on the shore of the lake. Josephus mentions a wealthy Galilean town destroyed by the Romans in the Jewish War (III, x) with the Greek name Taricheæ (Josephus does not give its Hebrew name), from its prosperous fisheries.

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Jewish - Talmud - Tiberias - Josephus - Jewish War

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