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Peki'in (alternatively Peqi'in) () or Buqei'a ((アラビア語:البقيعة)), is a Druze town with local council status in Israel's Northern District. It is located eight kilometres east of Ma'alot-Tarshiha in the Upper Galilee. In December 2012 the population was reportedly 5,435.〔(PEQI'IN (BUQEI'A) ) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics〕 A tradition of the Jewish community says they lived there continuously from the Second Temple period through the 20th century.〔(Researchers race to document vanishing Jewish heritage of Galilee Druze village ), Eli Ashkenaz, 25 July 2012, Haaretz, "Zinati, who was born in 1931, is the last link in the chain of a Jewish community that apparently maintained a continuous presence in Peki'in since the time of the Second Temple, when three families from the ranks of the cohanim, the priestly caste that served in the Temple, moved there. Since then, the only known break in the Jewish presence was during two years in the late 1930s, when the town's Jews fled the Arab riots of 1936-39. Most of them went to what they called the Hadera diaspora. But one family, Zinati's, returned home in 1940."〕〔(Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined ), Jacob Lassner, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, p.314, "...the small community of Peki'in in the mountains of the Galilee, not far from Safed, whose present-day residents could demonstrate that they were direct descendents of inhabitants of the village who had never gone into exile."〕 ==History== Objects such as potsherds of the Chalcolithic period were found in the village, and a burial site close by, making a settlement a possibility. The village ''Baca'' in Josephus' ''The Jewish War'' is thought to be Peki'in. According to Josephus it marked the border between the kingdom of Herod Agrippa II, and Tyre. A bundle of Jewish traditions is associated with a certain Peki'in often, appearing in writing under the names ''Baka'', ''Paka'' and ''Peki'in'', which gave rise to the theory that a Jewish community lived there continuously from the Second Temple period. According to the Talmud, Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah run a Beth Midrash, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his son Rabbi Elazar ben Shimon, hid in a cave from the Romans for 13 years,〔Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat, 33b〕〔Visitors in the village are still shown a small cave by an old Carob tree, as according to legend, one has nourished the rabbis when they stayed there.〕 and Shimon bar Yochai went on to teach at the city. However, there is evidence that the identification of Rabbinic Peki'in with Peki'in-Buqei'a is of Ottoman time, and other sites in the vicinity of Rehovot have also been suggested. The first writing where the name ''Peki'in'' undoubtedly refers to this village is from a 1765 Hebrew travel book. In the Crusader era, Peki'in was known under the name of ''Bokehel.''〔Frankel, 1988, p. 265〕 Together with several other villages in the area, it was part of the lordship of St. George, one of the largest in the Acre area. In the 12th century it was held by Henry de Milly, after his death it was inherited by his three daughters.〔Pringle, 1993, p. ( 80 )〕〔Ellenblum, 2003, p. (167 )〕 Henry de Milly's third and youngest daughter, Agnes of Milly, married Joscelin III. In 1220 their daughter Beatrix de Courtenay and her husband Otto von Botenlauben, Count of Henneberg, sold their land, including "one third of the fief of St. George", and "one third of the village of ''Bokehel''", to the Teutonic Knights.〔Strehlke, 1869, pp. (43 )- 44, No. 53; cited in Röhricht, 1893, RHH, p. (248 ), No. 934 (38); cited in Frankel, 1988, pp. 253, 264-5〕 During this era the village was connected by a road to Castellum Regis.〔Strehlke, 1869, p. (120 ), no.128; cited in Ellenblum, 2003, pp. ( 43 )-44〕 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「Peki'in」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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