Et-Tell and El-Araj are two contending sites for a city on this body of water sometimes called Julias. Matthew Silver’s two-part history of this body of water describes the 1986 finding of a 1st-century fishing boat. This body of water conventionally names 363 and 749 CE earthquakes, which respectively destroyed Nabratein and Decapolis cities like Hippos. A historian who governed a province with the same name as this body of water criticized a “fourth sect” from nearby Gamla and contested that province with John of (*) Giscala. A figure who worked around this body of water was apocryphally the subject of Julian the Apostate’s last words. Around 350 CE, Joseph of Tiberias founded the Church of the Multiplication along this body of water. For 10 points, Jesus is said to have walked upon what lake in northern Israel? ■END■
ANSWER: Sea of Galilee [or Sea of Kinneret or Yam Kinneret; or Thalassan tēs Galilaias; accept Sea of Tiberias, Lake Tiberias, Thalassan tēs Tiberiados, or Buḥayret Ṭabariyyā until “Tiberias” is read; accept Lake Hula, Sea of Sumchi, Agam ha-Hula, Buheirat el Huleh, Samchuna, Semechonitis, Yam Sumchi, or Hulata; accept 363 Galilee earthquake or 749 Galilee earthquake; accept Sea of Galilee Boat] (The site in the first line is better known as Bethdaida. The historian was Josephus, who wrote about the First Jewish–Roman War. Julian supposedly said “Vicisti, Galilaee,” or “You win, Galilean.”)
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