Identifier: palestinesyriawi00karl (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, Albert, 1844-1899 Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935 Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Palestine -- Guidebooks Syria -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York, C. Scribner's sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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(1 Kings XYiii) has invested itwith special sanctity for both Jews and Christians. According to the Bible story, King Ahab of Isi-ael had, under the in-fluence of his wife Jezebel (p. Ixxxvi), introduced the cult of Baal, andhad in conseqiience been punished by Jehovah by three years of famine.The prophet Elijah then appeared before him and invited the priests ofBaal to a test on Mt. Carmel. While these priests invoked their gods invain, the burnt-oftering of Elijah was licked up by fire descending fromLeaven. The people thereupon recognized the might of Jehovah, and atthe command of Elijah slew the priests of Baal. Tacitus mentions analtar to the God of CarmeP which stood here without temple or image,and Vespasian cavised tlie oracle of this god to be consulted. At an earlyperiod, many Christian hermits occupied the natural caverns which aboundon the mountain, especially on its W. side; some of these still containGreek inscriptions. About 1156 arose the order of the Carmelites, which
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i^rnwiL, KiLgrarea & ^FrirttBd by of Haifa. MOUNT CARMEL. 25. Route. 227 was confirmed by Pope Honorius III. in 1207 and spread to Europe after1238. In 1252 the monasterj was visited by St. Louis. In 1635 the churchwas converted into a mosque. Afterwards, however, the monks regainedtheir footing on the mountain. In 1775 the church and monastery wereplundered. When Kapoleim besieged Acre in 1799 (p. 230) the monasterywas used by the French as a hospital, but on their retreat the inmateswere murdered by the Turks. The monastery was destroyed in 1821 byAbdallah Pasha, of Acre, but it was rebuilt in 1828. Most travellers content themselves with a visit to the N.W.summit of the riilge, which is surrounded on three sides by the sea.The magnificent *View includes the sea, the encircling mountains,and the coast, extending on the N. to the lighthouse of Tyre (p. 267)and on the S. to Caesarea (p. 232). Acre is visible on the N. sideof the bay. The mountains, the most prominent of which is M

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