Gamala

Coponius, procurator fourth before Pilate, had a pretty time crushing the Gaulonite sedition which arose in this fashion and spread down from Gamala.

Chapter 17 2010

In the 1st century we read that “Joshua ben Gamala came and instituted that teachers should be appointed in every province and in every city, and children about the age of six or seven placed in their charge.”

Hitchens hates Hanukkah. Ann Althouse 2007

Says the article, Signor Cascioli maintains that early Christian writers confused Jesus with John of Gamala, an anti-Roman Jewish insurgent in 1st-century Palestine.

Pen-Elayne on the Web 2006

These things determine the situation of Gamala: -- 1.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Now it is well enough known that Gaulona and Gamala were beyond Jordan.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

He makes mention, also, of Cana, in the same book of his own Life, in these words; "Sylla, king Agrippa's general, encamping five furlongs from Julias, blocked up the ways with guards, both that which leads to Cana, and that which leads to the castle Gamala."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

That country that lay nearest, from those noted towns of Gaulan and Gamala, he calls Gaulonitis and Gamalitica; and that which was farther off, he calls by its own name of Batanea; and what lies still beyond that, Trachonitis.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

But now, when Julias and Gamala, without all doubt, were beyond Jordan, it may be inquired whether that Cana were not also on that side.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

"The country of Gamala, and Gaulanitis, and Batanea, and Trachonitis."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Upon the expiration of his quaestorship, he was raised to the rank of commander of a legion [779], and took the two strong cities of Tarichaea and Gamala, in Judaea; and having his horse killed under him in a battle, he mounted another, whose rider he had encountered and slain.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus