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VIEW OF TIBERIAS AND LAKE OF GALILEE, c. 1870s-1880s
Tiberias is about 2,000 years old. In 20 C.E. Herod Antipas began to build on the ruins of an ancient town called Rakkat. He named the new city in honour of Tiberias, the Emperor of Rome. After the destruction of Jerusalem, Tiberias and Galilee superseded Judah and became the seat of sages; here the Mishna was completed in about 100 C.E. and the Jerusalem Talmud about 400 C.E. Here, too, the vowel and punctuated Hebrew script originated. The sea is sometimes called the Sea of Tiberias as the New Testment tells - “The Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.” Legend narrates -from all the seas which God created, He chose for Him only the Sea of Kinneret. And why is it called Kinneret? Because the voice of its waves is as pleasant as the voice of the harp – kinor in Hebrew. Others say because the shape of the sea resembles that of the harp.  (John 6:1; 21:1.) Tiberias was a very young town when St. Peter became the disciple of Jesus. The town is mentioned once in the Gospel – “there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks.” (John 21:1.)

PHOTOGRAPHER: FELIX BONFILS, 1831 - 1885
The signature “Bonfils” appears on thousands of photographs taken by three members of the Bonfils family; Felix (father), Lydie (mother), Adrien (son) and possibly one Abraham Guiragossian, an Armenian, who took over the Bonfils studio in Beirut about 1907 and ran it until 1932. Felix and Lydie went to Beirut in 1867 from France and worked together until son Adrien joined them in 1877. When Turkey declared war on France, Adrien was imprisioned and Lydie deported to Cairo. Guiragossian continue to manage the Beirut studio, maintaining the name “Bonfils,” selling prints from Bonfils negatives and possibly signing that name to his own work.
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