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Gadara, or Um Qais, also part of the Decapolis in far northwestern Jordan, where Jesus cast out the unclean spirits that fled into a herd of swine, and then ran in to the Sea of Galilee and drowned. Vaage (1994), cannot be cannot be discussed without a proper study of the communications and possible contacts via roads and boats on the Sea of Galilee between Galilean areas and the nearby Decapolis city of Gadara, well known for its philosophical schools (Vaage 2000). and disregarding the older, more complex Menippean tradition, named after its founder Menippus of Gadara (third century B. |
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