c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.573

The Wars of the Jews 2.573

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.573

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

573and as he knew the Romans would fall upon Galilee, he built walls in proper places about Jotapata, and Bersabee, and Salamis; and besides these, about Caphareccho, and Japha, and Sigo, and what they call Mount Tabor, and Taricheae, and Tiberias. Moreover, he built walls about the caves near the lake of Gennessar, which places lay in the Lower Galilee; the samehe did to the places of Upper Galilee, as well as to the rock called the Rock of the Achabari, and to Seph, and Jamnith, and Meroth;