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Rakkath (also Rakat or Rakkat) is mentioned in Joshua 19:35 as a fenced or fortified city in the territory of the Tribe of Naphtali and is considered according to Jewish tradition to be the location where the city of Tiberias was built from around 20 CE.
Jewish tradition holds that Tiberias was built on the site of the ancient Israelite village of Rakkath or Rakkat, first mentioned in the Book of Joshua. In Talmudic times, the Jews still referred to it by this name. Roman period Herodian period
A fortified city in Naphtali. Jewish tradition identified it with Tiberias, but modern scholarship identified it with Khirbet el-Quneitireh, a small ancient site near the W shore of the Sea of Galilee c. a m. and a half N of Tiberias.
Rakkath. Before the Romans ‘rebranded’ Tiberias as a health tourist centre and more importantly an strategic administrative centre it was formally a fortified Jewish settlement township call Rakkath. The earliest reference to it is in Joshua 19:35, ‘The fortified towns were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth..’.
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another name for Tiberias (ancient): 20% confidenceanother name for Kartan (ancient): less than 10% confidence. It may be:Aharoni, Land of the Bible (1979): page 441Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992): Rakkath (place)Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land (1990): RakkathBaker Illustrated Bible Dictionary (2013): RakkathThis chart indicates how confidence in the identifications is changing over time. Each dot (conneceted by a dotted line) reflects the confidence of an identification over the preceding ten years (e.g., the 2009 dot reflects scholarship from 2000 to 2009), and the corresponding solid line reflects a best-fit line for the identification. Confidences ...
This page attempts to identify all the possible locations where this biblical place could be. The confidence levels add up to less than 100%, indicating that the modern location is uncertain. It's best to think about the confidences in relative rather than absolute terms. Often they reflect different schools of thought, each confident in their iden...
Discover the meaning of Rakkath in the Bible. Study the definition of Rakkath with multiple Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias and find scripture references in the Old and New Testaments.
Rakkath was one of the fortified cities in Naphtali ( Joshua 19:35 ). It is named between Hammath and Chinnereth. Hammath is identified with the hot baths to the South of Tiberias. There are traces of ancient fortifications here. The rabbis think that Tiberias was built on the site of Rakkath. Certain it is that Herod's town was built upon an ...
