... . Baba Mes‘ia 59b). A squall came down on the lake: Lit. “a hurricane of wind.” Gennesaret Lake (or the “Sea of Galilee”) lies 600 feet below sea level, and strong cold winds blowing through the deep gorges that feed into this basin often cause sudden and violent storms. See Jack Finegan, The Archaeology of the New Testament (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964), pp. 47–48.
