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Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.106–107.

Rami Arav and Richard A. Freund, eds., Bethsaida: A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee, Bethsaida Excavations Project 1 (Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson Univ. Press, 1995), pp. xv, 6.

A map is to be found in Fred Strickert, Bethsaida: Home of the Apostles (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1998), p. 42.

Pliny, Natural History 5.71.

Josephus, The Jewish War 2.168; see also Antiquities of the Jews 18.28.

F.M. Heichelheim, “Roman Syria,” in Tenney Frank, ed., An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1938), vol.4, p. 154.

Betzah 3.2, in Danby, Mishnah, p. 185. See also Abodah Zarah 2.4.

Makshirin 6.3, trans. Herbert Danby, The Mishnah (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1933), p. 765.

In the middle of the first century A.D., the association of fishermen and fishmongers (hoi halieis kai opsariopolai) at Ephesus had the resources to erect a large public building that served as a customs house; see Horsley, Linguistic Essays, pp. 95–114.

See “Salsamentum” in Charles Daremberg and Edmond Saglio, eds., Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines (Paris, n.d.), vol. 4, pt. 2, pp. 1022–1025.