Baskama

{{Short description|Location where the Book of Maccabees says Jonathan of the Hasmoneans was killed}}

Baskama is the place where Jonathan Apphus, the Hasmonean leader of the Judean forces in the Maccabean era from {{circa|160–143 BCE}}, was killed by Diodotus Tryphon according to the book 1 Maccabees ({{bibleverse|1|Maccabees|13:23|NRSV}}).

The New American Bible Revised Edition suggests that it may lie northeast of the Sea of Galilee.{{bibleverse|1|Maccabees|13:23|NABRE}}: NABRE, footnote b Jewish historian Uriel Rappaport writes that it was "probably in the Golan (...) but identification is uncertain".{{cite book|last=Rappaport | first=Uriel |author-link = Uriel Rappaport | chapter = 1 Maccabees | title=The Oxford Bible Commentary | editor-first1=John| editor-last1=Barton |editor-link=John Barton (theologian) | editor-first2=John| editor-last2= Muddiman |editor2-link=John Muddiman | publisher = Oxford University Press |edition=Online | date = 2001 | pages = | isbn = 9780191979897 | chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198755005.001.0001/acref-9780198755005-chapter-51 }} A note in the Encyclopedia of the Bible states that "it is referred to as Basca by Josephus in his Antiquities, xiii. 6. 6. It is possibly to be identified with modern el-Jummeizeh, NE of the Sea of Galilee".Encyclopedia of the Bible, [https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Bascama Bascama], accessed 5 January 2021 This identification is also accepted by the Israeli historian Michael Avi-Yonah.{{Cite journal |last=Avi-Yonah |first=Michael |date=1976 |title=Gazetteer of Roman Palestine |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43587090 |journal=Qedem |volume=5 |pages=35 |issn=0333-5844}}