Identifier: palestinesyriawi01karl (find matches)
Title: Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm) Socin, A. (Albert), 1844-1899 Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935 Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
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Publisher: Leipzig : Karl Baedeker London : T. Fisher Unwin New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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n which Philipbaptized the eunuch was pointed out here (comp. p. 93), and it is somarked on the mosaic map of Madeba (p. 162). The traces of anancient church were formerly visible. A little way to the S. thereare tomb-chambers in the rock. At the top of the hill are ruinscalled Beit Surj which answer to the ancient Beth-Zur (Josh. xv. 58;Nehem. iii. 16). At the period of the Maccabees Beth-Zur was a placeof great importance. A little farther on (5 min.) the Mohammedanvillage of Halhul (Josh. xv. 58) becomes visible on a hill to the left.The mosque of Nebi Yunus, outside the village, is built, according toMoslem tradition, over the grave of the prophet Jonah. Later Jewishwriters mention a tradition that the prophet Gad was buried here(2 Sam. xxiv. 11). There are rock-tombs in the neighbourhood. A little farther on (2OI/2 M. from Jerusalem) we perceive, about440 yds. to the left of the road, the ruins of *Haram Rdmet el-KhalU.The S. and W. walls only are preserved (71 yds. and 68V2 Y^^-
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Wagner 4DetoesGeq;r£^3:st3iI)lIieqiag to Hebron. HEBRON. 12. Route, 113 long respectively), and two or three courses of stone are still visible.The blocks are of great length (10-16 ft.) and are jointed withoutmortar. In the S.W. angle of the interior there is a cistern. Whatpurpose the building served, and whether it was ever completed,cannot now be ascertained. Jewish tradition places here the Groveof Mamre (see p. 115), and the valley is still called the Valley ofTerebinths (comp. p. 124). The earliest Christian tradition also looksfor Mamre somewhere between Hebron and Beit Sur (p. 112). About60 paces farther to the E. is a large ruined church, probably thebasilica erected by Constantine at the terebinth of Mamre. Near itare two oil-presses in the rock. A large cistern 5 min, farther tothe S. is shown as the bath of Sarah. Returning to the road, we come, a few paces farther on, to an in-different footpath on the right, which leads past the ruins of the vil-lage of Khirbet en-Nasd

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