Galilee

(gal'e-le.) (Anc. Geog.) A N.E.dist.of Palestine, N. of Samaria, and divided into Upper G.- which included the half tribe of Mana eh - and Lonver G., on the N. edge of Judæa, divided among the tribes of Naphtali, I achar, Asher, and Zebulon. This region, b. N. by Syria and the Lebanon, E. by the Jordan, and W.by Phoenicia, formed the birthplace of Christianity in the person of the Saviour. It now constitutes a part of the Turkish pasha lic of Damascus.-G. (SEA OF), or LAKE OF TIBERIAS, in Palestine, receives the river Jordan, and bears also the Scriptural names of the Lake of Gennesareth, and the Sea or Lake of Kinnaeth. According to Joseph us its ancient length was 100 furlongs; width 40. [s. 392]