Identifier: biblespadelectur00pete (find matches)
Title: Bible and spade; lectures delivered before Lake Forest college
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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was not untilabout 2500 B. C. that these were replaced by a Semiticstock. It is chiefly through the study of the pottery,the Egyptian scarabs, and the few seals, etc., whichwere found that MacAlister was able to restore tothis extent the history of those times—to show theslow development of civilization out of barbarism,the relations of Palestine with the outside world, theinfluence of Egypt, the coming in of the Hebrews,and of new religious ideas. One of his interesting dis-coveries was a rock-cut, sloping tunnel descending toa depth of over ninety feet, by which the Gezeritesprocured living water under their city within the forti-fications. The remains found at the mouth of thetunnel show that this was in use before 2000 B. C.At that period Canaanites were doing wonderful workin rock-cutting, which was, in reality, part of theirinheritance from the barbaric peoples that precededthem. It was the older troglodytes who began thatcutting into the rock, first enlarging old caves, then
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Photograph by Mr. Lars Lind, American Colony. Jerusalem. Rock-cut pool and secret water passage beneath Gibeon,from before the Hebrew conquest of Canaan. The Exploration of Palestine 185 building caves of their own, which has left such a won-derful underground world, as yet only half explored,beneath the Palestine we see. In a former lecture I called attention to the factthat the ancient Jerusalem before Davids time wassupplied with water by rock-cut shafts and tunnelsas Gezer was. On my last visit to Jerusalem, in thespring of 1920, my attention was called by Mr. LarsLind of the American colony to the fact that there wasan interesting rock-cut fountain under the city ofGibeon. Exploring that, and swimming across thefountain, which I assure you was very cold and un-desirable as a swimming-pool, stirring up some twofeet of mud by sounding for the bottom, and thusarousing the wrath of the whole town of Gezer, whdfeewater-supply we were ruining for the next week, wefound on the other sid

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