TYRE
Southern Lebanon remains one of the world’s finest corners of natural beauty. It has a rocky coast that is broken by occasional beaches and by the mouth of rivers. On the coast are two towns that have little current significance in economy of Lebanon. Tyre is the southern city of the two. It was situated on the Lebanese coast. It was just south of the spot where the river Litani flows into the Mediterranean Sea. Its site had been chosen partially because of a small rocky island, located half a mile out from the shore. Tyre is located approximately 33.19N Latitude and 35.16E Longitude. Part of the city was built on the mainland, part on the island. With the double location it offers its citizens both military protection and excellent port facilities.
Tyre was a maritime city. Its fame was based on the ocean with its traffic and trade. Tyre’s sister city is Sidon. Tyre has not been a major focal point of modern archaeological activity. It, along with Sidon, became the focal point for a while of the newly developed techniques of underwater exploration, their respective harbor facilities. The waters of the Mediterranean have risen considerably over more then two millennia, and parts of the original harbors of the cities lay at depths more than forty feet below the surface. Tyre’s harbor was examined at an earlier date, somewhere in 1934 to 1937.Soil excavations at Tyre have uncovered a number of important structures, including an ancient theater, though they are relatively late (Graeco-Roman) and tell little of the city’s earliest history.
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Tyre, along with Sidon, has not survived primarily on the basis of modern archaeological discoveries. It, along with Sidon, is known to have flourished in the second millennium BC. Tyre came into prominence in the first millennium BC with the rise of Phoenicia to a central place in world history.
Phoenicia is a territory generally similar to modern Lebanon in scope. Phoenicia was not so much a nation as a collection of city-state. Four cities of Phoenicia were of particular importance, Byblos, Arwad, Tyre, and Sidon. Sometimes Tyre retained a large degree of autonomy, principally as a consequence of the wealth and influence they acquired through trade.
For a while Tyre had its own empire of sorts, scattered throughout the Mediterranean world in the form of settlements and trading posts. Tyre and Sidon capitalized on their locations by developing both trade and local industries. Tyre and Sidon exported timber, cedar and cypress, oil, wine, and dyed materials. Tyre and Sidon traded in linen, ivory, and precious metals from Egypt. They traded in copper from Cyprus. They traded in other commodities from the world’s remote corners. The citizens of Phoenicia, especially those of Tyre, were not content so they developed it further. By the 19th century, the Tyrian fleets had opened up sea routes to Spain exploiting the rich mineral resources of that land such as copper, tin, and silver. The local industries in Tyre also contributed to its wealth. Cedar provided not only valuable exports but also the resources for a strong shipbuilding industry.
The histories of Tyre intersected frequently with the history of the Hebrews, and later of the early Christians. It was Hiram, king of Tyre, who sent cedar, along with carpenters and masons, to assist David in the construction of his palace in Jerusalem (2 Sam. 5:11) By the time of the great prophets, the prophets because of their arrogance condemned Tyre. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and others pointed to the cruelty of the citizens of Tyre and their violations of he human rights of others. Beginning in 586 BC the Babylonians began a thirteen-year siege of Tyre, destroying its mainland territories.
During the years of his preaching ministry Jesus visited the coastal region of Tyre which was not too far distance from his native Galilee Jesus was in the vicinity of Tyre when he healed the daughter of a Syro-Phoenician woman. (Mark 7:24-30)
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When Jesus taught and preached, people from Tyre were among those who thronged to hear him (Mark 3:8 andLuke6:17).
While returning from a missionary journey, Paul and Luke spent a week in Tyre. When they got there, there was already a small Christian community established (Acts 21:3-4)
Tyre has also continued to hold a place in Western literature and imagination. These are poems composed by Robert Browning in 1855 (left) Rudyard Kipling in 1897 (right)
