That of Kasyoun bears a Greek inscription of the time of Septimus Severus.

The great importance which Judaism acquired in Upper Galilee after the Roman war, leads us to believe that several of these edifices only date back to the third century--a time in which Tiberias became a sort of capital of Judaism.] [Footnote 4: 2 _Esdras_ viii.

4; Matt.xxiii.

6; Epist.

James ii.