Banias has two entrances, and on the following map, I marked them. And Banias Nature Reserve is located at the Golan Heights, near Tel Dan Nature Reserve and Mount Hermon. In the East (eastern Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt), territories were governed either by kings who were friends and allies of Rome (often called client kings or, more disparagingly, puppet kings) or by governors supported by a Roman army. Map The remains of Caesarea Philippi are part of Banias (Hermon Stream Nature Reserve). kopp, The Holy Places of the Gospels, tr. Palestine in Jesus’ day was part of the Roman Empire, which controlled its various territories in a number of ways. baly, The Geography of the Bible ( New York 1957) 194 –196. Ruins of columns, capitals, hewn stones, and a city gate are still witness to the splendor it had in Greco-Roman times.īibliography: d. After its recapture by the Crusaders ( c. In the early Christian era, the city was a suffragan of Tyre. According to an ancient tradition, known through Eusebius, this was the town of the woman who had been suffering from hemorrhage and was miraculously cured by touching the edge of Jesus' cloak (Mt 9.20 –22). The city is mentioned in the first two Gospels as the site where Peter professed his belief in the messiah-ship and divinity of Jesus (Mt 16.13 –20 Mk 8.27). The old Greek name survives in its Arab form, Baniyas, the present-day village. Coins from the following centuries call the place Caesarea Paneas. The city was known as Caesarea Philippi or Philip's Caesarea (to distinguish it from several other Caesareas) until agrippa ii altered the name to Neronias ( Ant. Under his son, Philip the Tetrarch, the city was rebuilt, including, on the old sanctuary site, a new marble temple in honor of the emperor. Herod the Great received the territory in 20 b.c. The grotto was dedicated by the predominantly Greek population to Pan and the Nymphs hence, the nearby city was called Paneas (Panion). A sizeable river, the Banyasi, one of the main sources of the Jordan, issues from a nearby cave. A city of Roman times on an ancient site long associated with fertility cults, both Canaanite and Greek.
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