# Baskama

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{{Short description|Location where the Book of Maccabees says Jonathan of the Hasmoneans was killed}}
'''Baskama''' is the place where [Jonathan Apphus](/source/Jonathan_Apphus), the [Hasmonean](/source/Hasmonean) leader of the Judean forces in the [Maccabean era](/source/Maccabean_Revolt) from {{circa|160–143 BCE}}, was killed by [Diodotus Tryphon](/source/Diodotus_Tryphon) according to the book [1 Maccabees](/source/1_Maccabees) ({{bibleverse|1|Maccabees|13:23|NRSV}}).

The [New American Bible Revised Edition](/source/New_American_Bible_Revised_Edition) suggests that Baskama may lie northeast of the [Sea of Galilee](/source/Sea_of_Galilee).<ref>{{bibleverse|1|Maccabees|13:23|NABRE}}: NABRE, footnote b</ref> Jewish historian [Uriel Rappaport](/source/Uriel_Rappaport) writes that it was "probably in the [Golan](/source/Golan_Heights) (...) but identification is uncertain".<ref>{{cite book|last=Rappaport | first=Uriel |author-link = Uriel Rappaport | chapter = 1 Maccabees | title=The Oxford Bible Commentary | editor-first1=John| editor-last1=Barton |editor-link=John Barton (theologian) | editor-first2=John| editor-last2= Muddiman |editor2-link=John Muddiman | publisher = Oxford University Press |edition=Online | date = 2001 | pages = | isbn = 9780191979897 | chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198755005.001.0001/acref-9780198755005-chapter-51 }}</ref> A note in the ''Encyclopedia of the Bible'' states that "it is referred to as ''Basca'' by [Josephus](/source/Josephus) in his ''[Antiquities](/source/Antiquities_of_the_Jews)'', xiii. 6. 6. It is possibly to be identified with modern el-Jummeizeh, NE of the Sea of Galilee".<ref>Encyclopedia of the Bible, [https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Bascama Bascama], accessed 5 January 2021</ref> This identification is also accepted by the Israeli historian [Michael Avi-Yonah](/source/Michael_Avi-Yonah).<ref name="AY19762">{{Cite journal |last=Avi-Yonah |first=Michael |date=1976 |title=Gazetteer of Roman Palestine |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43587090 |journal=Qedem |volume=5 |pages=35 |issn=0333-5844}}</ref>

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Category:Old Testament places
Category:Books of the Maccabees locations

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