Draft talk:Tiberias Ancient Jewish Cemetery

Which? Where? Mess!

One big confusing mess.

What cemetery does this article discuss? Answer: several, or basically almost the entire area of Tiberias, including several distinct, now isolated graves or cemeteries, and includes much newer burial sites (medieval, Ottoman-period, and Mandate-period at the very least). This is a totally unencyclopedic approach, especially if using the singular and capital C in the title "Tiberias Ancient Jewish Cemetery". It also confuses ancient tombs, described as Hasmonean, with Iron Age ones - at least the legends speak of biblical-era graves, so from the Iron Age city of Rakkath.

The cemetery between the northern walls of ancient Tiberias and south of Zaher al-Umar's walls, i.e. at the southern entrance to modern Tiberias, still has a large, now quasi-abandoned Muslim section and an expansive Jewish one. I don't think the description as closed/full is totally correct.

Tombs and cemeteries, mentioned or not:

• Maimonides, near the modern city centre; traditional: medieval (C13)
• Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess, above ancient Hammat Gader; traditional: Late Roman
• old Jewish and Muslim cemetery between the ancient and the medieval & Ottoman cities; apparently main focus here
• Rakkath apparently stood north of Tiberias (marked archaeological site between modern Tib. and ancient Magdala). Its burials can impossibly have been as far south as Hammat and Tiberias of classical antiquity. Nobody regularly carried their dead for kilometres for burial. Arminden (talk) 08:53, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

This material should go back to sandbox until ripe for publication. Arminden (talk) 10:09, 27 July 2024 (UTC)