phiala

Updated: May 22, 2025

One evening, near the rushes of Lake Phiala, where the Jordan leaps anew to the light, a Greek merchant who had refused them shelter at Seleucia ambled that way on an ass, and would have stopped, perhaps, but one of the band scoffed him, and he rode on, and disappeared in the haze of the hills. Unobserved, the Master had seen and heard; presently he called them to where he stood.

Edgar Saltus - Mary Magdalen

Lake Phiala, near the Lake of Huleh, is also situated to the west of the Jordan valley. Its origin, according to Tristram, is volcanic. Schumacher, "The Jaulân," Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1886 and 1888; and Across the Jordan, London, 1886. Tristram, Land of Moab, London, 1873; and Land of Israel, 1866. Niebuhr, Beschreibung von Arabien, 1773.

Edward Hull - Volcanoes: Past and Present