Kedesh information

Tel Kedesh
	Tel Kedesh
	Shown within Israel Kedesh (Northeast Israel)
Alternative name	Cydessa
Location	Northern District, Israel
Region	Upper Galilee
Coordinates	33°06′42″N 35°31′46″E / 33.111638°N 35.529517°E
Type	Settlement
Site notes
Condition	In ruins
Public access	yes

Kedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned few times in the Hebrew Bible. Its remains are located in Tel Kedesh, 3 km northeast of the modern Kibbutz Malkiya in Israel on the Israeli-Lebanese border.^[1]

As Qadas (also Cadasa; Arabic: قدس), it was a Palestinian village located 17 kilometers northeast of Safad that was depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war.^[2]^[3] One of seven villages populated by Shia Muslims, called the Metawalis, that fell within the boundaries of British Mandate Palestine, Qadas is today known as the tell of the ancient biblical city of Kedesh.^[4]^[3] The village of Qadas contained many natural springs which served as the village water supply and a Roman temple dating back to the 2nd century.^[2]

^ Negev & Gibson, eds. (2001), p. 278.
^ ^a ^b "Welcome to Qadas". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 2007-12-03.
^ ^a ^b Danny Rubinstein (2006-08-06). "The Seven Lost Villages". Haaretz. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007.
^ "The Hebrew University Excavations at Tel Qedesh". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2023-02-12. A Shi'a village by the name of Qadas occupied part of the mound in the last centuries, and was abandoned in the aftermath of the 1948 War.; "The Hebrew University Expedition to Qedesh in the Galilee". Archaeological Institute of America. 2021-11-21. Retrieved 2023-02-12. Tel Qedesh is one of the largest biblical mounds in northern Israel. First settled as early as the Chalcolithic period, the site reached its peak during the Early Bronze Age, when an enormous site (ca. 60 hectares), extending well beyond the main mound, emerged during this crucial phase of early Levantine urbanism. A Canaanite city continued to thrive on the mound during the second millennium BCE, to be followed by an important Israelite center during the Iron Age II, known as one of the Refuge and Levite Cities (Joshua 20:7; 21:32). Following its conquest by the Assyrian King Tiglath Pileser III in 732 BCE (2 Kings 15:29), it re-emerged as a Phoenician administrative center during the Persian and Hellenistic periods, and later as an important pagan town on the boundary between Tyre and Jewish Galilee during the Second Temple period (BJ 3:35–40). A rural cultic center, housing two temples and numerous mausolea (elaborate burial monuments), developed here in the Late Roman period, and an important market town is attested during the Early Islamic period. In the more recent past, the mound was occupied by a small Shi'ite village by the name of Qadas… the Arab village of Qadas, which was occupying the upper mound during the last centuries.

[Negev-1] Negev & Gibson, eds. (2001), p. 278.

[PR-2] "Welcome to Qadas". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 2007-12-03.

[Rubinstein-3] Danny Rubinstein (2006-08-06). "The Seven Lost Villages". Haaretz. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007.

[arch-4] "The Hebrew University Excavations at Tel Qedesh". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2023-02-12. A Shi'a village by the name of Qadas occupied part of the mound in the last centuries, and was abandoned in the aftermath of the 1948 War.; "The Hebrew University Expedition to Qedesh in the Galilee". Archaeological Institute of America. 2021-11-21. Retrieved 2023-02-12. Tel Qedesh is one of the largest biblical mounds in northern Israel. First settled as early as the Chalcolithic period, the site reached its peak during the Early Bronze Age, when an enormous site (ca. 60 hectares), extending well beyond the main mound, emerged during this crucial phase of early Levantine urbanism. A Canaanite city continued to thrive on the mound during the second millennium BCE, to be followed by an important Israelite center during the Iron Age II, known as one of the Refuge and Levite Cities (Joshua 20:7; 21:32). Following its conquest by the Assyrian King Tiglath Pileser III in 732 BCE (2 Kings 15:29), it re-emerged as a Phoenician administrative center during the Persian and Hellenistic periods, and later as an important pagan town on the boundary between Tyre and Jewish Galilee during the Second Temple period (BJ 3:35–40). A rural cultic center, housing two temples and numerous mausolea (elaborate burial monuments), developed here in the Late Roman period, and an important market town is attested during the Early Islamic period. In the more recent past, the mound was occupied by a small Shi'ite village by the name of Qadas… the Arab village of Qadas, which was occupying the upper mound during the last centuries.

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Site notes
Tel Kedesh
Shown within Israel Show map of Israel Kedesh (Northeast Israel) Show map of Northeast Israel
Alternative name	Cydessa
Location	Northern District, Israel
Region	Upper Galilee
Coordinates	33°06′42″N 35°31′46″E / 33.111638°N 35.529517°E / 33.111638; 35.529517
Type	Settlement
Condition	In ruins
Public access	yes