Bible Location
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The sea of Tiberias is a New Testament name for the Sea of Galilee. It is important because it reflects the Roman-era city of Tiberias becoming a dominant regional reference point. First appears in John 6:1.1
AI summary: The sea of Tiberias matters because the same lake is remembered through different historical layers. John's Gospel uses the Roman-era city-name, showing the continued adaptation of place-language across biblical periods. The cross references present the sea of Tiberias as the Roman-period naming of Galilee's central lake.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.