Editing Jenin (section)

===Roman and Byzantine periods===
[[Josephus]], a [[Roman Jews|Roman-Jewish]] historian of the 1st-century CE, mentions ''Ginae'' as being in the great plain, on the northern border of [[Samaria]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="War">{{cite web|author=Josephus Flavius|title=''Jewish War'', Book 3, Chapter 3:4-5|url=http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/josephus-wara.html|access-date=2012-12-31|publisher=Fordham.edu|via=Ancient History Sourcebook: Josephus (37 – after 93 CE): Galilee, Samaria, and Judea in the First Century CE|quote=Now as to the country of Samaria, it lies between Judea and Galilee; it begins at a village that is in the great plain called Ginea, and ends at the Acrabbene toparchy, and is entirely of the same nature with Judea|archive-date=2023-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429124644/http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/josephus-wara.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Safrai|first=Zeev|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1022977764|title=Seeking out the Land: Land of Israel traditions in ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan literature (200 BCE-400 CE)|date=2018|isbn=978-90-04-33482-3|location=Leiden|oclc=1022977764}}</ref> During the Roman period, ''Ginae'' was settled exclusively by [[Samaritans]]. The [[Galilean|people of Galilee]] were disposed to pass through their city during the [[Three Pilgrimage Festivals|annual pilgrimages]] to Jerusalem.<ref>Josephus, ''Antiquities'' XX.VI.1</ref> In 51 CE, a Galilean Jew was killed in Ginae by hostile Samaritans while en route to Jerusalem to celebrate [[Sukkot]]. With [[Roman administration of Judaea (AD 6–135)|Roman procurator]] [[Ventidius Cumanus|Cumanus]] failing to respond, [[Zealots|Jewish Zealots]] led by Elazar the Son of Deinaeus (Ben Dinai) sought vengeance, and several Samaritan villages in [[Aqraba, Nablus|Aqrabatene]] were destroyed.<ref>Josephus, ''the Jewish War,'' II.232-236; ''Antiquities'' XX:118-122</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=אילן |first=טל |title=בין יוספוס לחז"ל: כרך א' - האגדות האבודות של ימי הבית השני |publisher=יד יצחק בן-צבי |year=2017 |isbn=978-965-217-403-1 |editor-last=נעם |editor-first=ורד |location=Jerusalem |pages=521–525 |language=Hebrew |trans-title=Josephus and the Rabbis - Volume I: The Lost Tales of the Second Temple Period |editor-last2=אילן |editor-first2=טל}}</ref>

Biblical commentator [[F. W. Farrar]] raised the possibility that this Samaritan village, "the first village at which [a traveler taking the road from Galilee to [[Judea]] over [[Mount Tabor]]] would arrive", was the one which rejected the disciples of Jesus in [[Luke's Gospel]] at the point where Jesus and his followers begin his journey towards [[Jerusalem]].<ref>Farrar, F. W., [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/cambridge/luke/9.htm Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges] on Luke 9, accessed 11 June 2018</ref>

Ceramics dating from the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] era have been found here.<ref>Dauphin, 1998, p. 750</ref> There is no mention of Jenin in the reports of the [[Muslim conquest of the Levant]] from the Byzantines, which, according to the historian Moshe Sharon, "is not surprising, since it was a small place of minor importance".<ref name="Sharon172">Sharon 2017, p. 172.</ref>