There are numerous names for this large freshwater basin, which is about 21 km long, 12 km wide and 200 meters below sea level. But in all languages and all over the world it is known as the Lake of Jesus. Countless are the biblical quotations of the events that took place on its shores. For the Jewish people, explained Br. Massimo Luca, professor of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem, it is "Yam Kinneret": Yam means "lake" or "sea", […]
