 In the New Testament, the term "sea of Galilee" (, "thalassan tēs Galilaias") is used in the gospel of Matthew , the gospel of Mark , and in the gospel of John as "the sea of Galilee, which is "the sea" of Tiberias" (θαλάσσης τῆς Γαλιλαίας τῆς Τιβεριάδος, "thalassēs tēs Galilaias tēs Tiberiados"), the late 1st century CE name.Sea of Tiberias is also the name mentioned in Roman texts and in the Jerusalem Talmud, and it was adopted into Arabic as (بحيرة طبريا), "Lake Tiberias".From the Umayyad through the Mamluk period, the lake was known in Arabic as ""Bahr al-Minya"", the "Sea of Minya", after the Umayyad "qasr" complex, whose ruins are still visible at Khirbat al-Minya.