Seleucia Samulias
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Seleucia Samulias – Seleucia also transliterated as Seleukeia or Seleukheia; in the Talmud
, Selik, Selika, and Selikos; in the Aramaic Targum
, Salwaḳia or Salwaḳya – was a Hellenistic colony founded about the end of the 3rd century BC on Lake Merom. According to the inference of Grätz, based on the scholium
to Meg. Ta'an., the remnant of the Pharisees
spared by Alexander Jannæus found a refuge there. Seleucia and Sogane were the first cities, after Gamala, to revolt from Agrippa in the Jewish Revolt of 66
. In his enumeration of the places conquered by Alexander Jannæus in eastern Syria, Josephus
locates the town near Lake Semechonitis (Lake Merom) (Bell. Jud. iv. 1, § 1). http://www.ancientlibrary.com/gazetteer/0314.html
Talmud
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, Selik, Selika, and Selikos; in the Aramaic Targum
Targum
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, Salwaḳia or Salwaḳya – was a Hellenistic colony founded about the end of the 3rd century BC on Lake Merom. According to the inference of Grätz, based on the scholium
Scholium
Scholia , are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments, either original or extracted from pre-existing commentaries, which are inserted on the margin of the manuscript of an ancient author, as glosses. One who writes scholia is a scholiast...
to Meg. Ta'an., the remnant of the Pharisees
Pharisees
The Pharisees were at various times a political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews during the Second Temple period beginning under the Hasmonean dynasty in the wake of...
spared by Alexander Jannæus found a refuge there. Seleucia and Sogane were the first cities, after Gamala, to revolt from Agrippa in the Jewish Revolt of 66
66
Year 66 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Telesinus and Paullinus...
. In his enumeration of the places conquered by Alexander Jannæus in eastern Syria, Josephus
Josephus
Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...
locates the town near Lake Semechonitis (Lake Merom) (Bell. Jud. iv. 1, § 1). http://www.ancientlibrary.com/gazetteer/0314.html