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Mt Arbel

The sheer rock cliffs of Mount Arbel stand over the western side of the Sea of Galilee. Mount Arbel has watched over numerous battles, travelers, and even disciples. The caves along its cliffs, Mount Arbel has given military refuge to various people through the centuries. Some of these include partisans of the Maccabees in 161 BC, rivals of Herod the Great in 38 BC, Josephus in AD 66, and others from the Druze Maan dynasty at the beginning of the 17th-century. Archaeology has revealed a nearby village, a forth-century synagogue, as well as signs of occupation in the caves as early as the second century. Josephus offers a grisly account of Arbel in his Antiquities (14:423–425). One of Herod’s soldiers grew irritated with the inaccessibility of the enemies holed up in the caves. Lowering himself in a basket, the soldier jerked out some of the cave dwellers with a grappling hook and shoved them over the cliffs.