 According to Josephus it marked the border between the kingdom of Herod Agrippa II, and Tyre.A bundle of Jewish traditions is associated with a certain Peki'in often, appearing in writing under the names "Baka", "Paka" and "Peki'in", which gave rise to the theory that a Jewish community lived there continuously from the Second Temple period.According to the Talmud, Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah run a Beth Midrash, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his son Rabbi Elazar ben Shimon, hid in a cave from the Romans for 13 years, and Shimon bar Yochai went on to teach at the city.