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Sheikh Bureik, also called Sheikh Abreik or Sheikh Ibreik',〔 was a Palestinian Arab village located southeast of Haifa.〔Negev and Gibson, 2001, (p. 86 ).〕 Situated at an ancient site that shows evidence of habitation as early as the Iron Age, it was an important center of Jewish learning in the 2nd century, with habitation continuing during the Byzantine era, Islamic era, and the Crusades. The village appears under the name Sheikh Bureik in 16th century Ottoman archives. Named for a local Muslim saint to whom a shrine was dedicated that remains standing to this day, it was a small village whose inhabitants were primarily agriculturalists. Rendered tenant farmers in the late 19th century after the Ottoman authorities sold the village lands to the Sursuk family of Lebanon, the village was depopulated in the 1920s after this family of absentee landlords in turn sold the lands to the Jewish National Fund. A new Jewish settlement of the same name was established there in 1925. Excavations at the site in 1936 revealed the ancient city, known in Greek as ''Besara'' and identified as Beth Shearim by Benjamin Mazar. Now an archaeological site, it has come to form part of the Beth Shearim national park which is managed by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority. ==Name== The site is first mentioned in the writings of Josephus, the 1st-century Jewish historian under the name ''Besara''.〔 The Arab village was named for a Muslim saint (wali) known as Sheikh Abreik for whom a two-domed shrine was erected which is still a site of pilgrimage (ziyara).〔 The name translates from Arabic into English as "the sheikh of the small pitcher".〔Mazar, 1976, (p. 34 ).〕 It has also been suggested that the name ''Abreik'' recalls the name of ''Barak'', the military general mentioned in the Bible's Book of Judges as the son of Abinoam.〔Sharon, 2004, p. (xxxviii )〕 Following excavations in 1936 of an ancient city located within the hill upon which the village was located until its Arab inhabitants were evicted, Benjamin Mazar identified the site as Beth Shearim, and this has been the official name of the site ever since.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sheikh Bureik, Lajjun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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