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Baskama is the place where Jonathan, the Hasmonean leader of the Jewish people in the second century BC, was murdered by Diodotus Tryphon according to 1 Maccabees 13:23.

The New American Bible Revised Edition suggests that it may lie northeast of the Sea of Galilee. [1] Jewish historian Uriel Rappaport says that it was "probably in the Golan" i.e. the Golan region, "but identification is uncertain". [2] A note in the Encyclopedia of the Bible states that "it is referred to as Basca by Josephus in his Antiquities , xiii. 6. 6. It is possibly to be identified with modern el-Jummeizeh, NE of the Sea of Galilee". [3] This identification is also accepted by the Israeli historian Michael Avi-Yonah. [4]

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References

  1. 1 Maccabees 13:23: NABRE, footnote b
  2. Rappaport, U., 47. 1 Maccabees in Barton, J. and Muddiman, J. (2001), The Oxford Bible Commentary Archived 2017-11-22 at the Wayback Machine , p. 730
  3. Encyclopedia of the Bible, Bascama, accessed 5 January 2021
  4. Avi-Yonah, Michael (1976). "Gazetteer of Roman Palestine". Qedem. 5: 35. ISSN   0333-5844.