Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of Travels in the Years 1838 & 1852 by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith and Others, Volume 2

Capa
J. Murray, 1856 - 600 páginas

De dentro do livro

Conteúdo

Go to Dawâimeh for the night by mistake 54 55 Conclude to visit elBurj
54
specifications of Eusebius and Jerome 5759 Hist Notices serving to sustain their
63
Eleutheropolis and Betogabra 65 66 Gath 66 67 Maresha Maressa 67 More
69
The Haram description 75 76 A mere wall around an interior court 76
76
Probably a Jewish structure surrounding the sepulchre of the patriarchs 77 Hist
82
Threshingfloors scenes of the book of Ruth 83 May 25th Visit to the Rabbi
92
pect towards the south 97 Country of the Jehâlin 98 Encamp over Sunday
98
Rujeim Selâmeh and view 102 Upper ezZuweirah 103 Wide prospect over
104
Bathe in the sea 110 Deep cavern in the mountain 110 Alarm at an approaching
114
along the base of the transverse line of cliffs 116 Ain elArûs 117 Wady Ghŭrůn
120
Violent Sirocco 122 Routes up to Wady Mûsa 122 123 Base of the mountains
129
Width of the chasm and height of the sides 130 131 Oleanders chan
135
cliffs only on E and W 138 Nature of the ground N and S of the brook 138
138
Silence and solitude of this city of the dead 142 143 Feast
145
Noise of guns Arab quarrel Arabs sent to bring us back 145 146 Sheikh turns
151
of this region the ancient Edom and Arabia Petræa 156163 Often visited by
166
Suddenly vanishes before the Muhammedan conquest 170 Identity of Petra with
173
first step or offset of the mountains drained by Wady elFikreh 177 178 A more
182
have been formed by some convulsion of nature destroying the fertile plain 189 Per
191
tract etTărâibeh 196 Pass of elMuzeikah third ascent towards Palestine
197
Ruins of Kurnub probably Thamara 197 Kubbet elBaul stray camel 198 Wady
204
Sheikhs of the Jehâlîn 207 208 Arrangement for paying over the price of the cam
210
Dura Nubian slave village quarrel 214 Subsequent rebellion 215 Ancient Ado
218
Sheikh saddles his ass and accompanies us as a guide 219 Terkûmieh Tricomias
220
Bethshemesh also Irshemesh 224 225 Wady Sărâr Râfât 226 Great plain Khulda
229
Hospitality upper room washing the feet 229 230 Tower of Ramleh beautiful
243
Jimzu Gimzo 249 Two roads up the mountain we cross the fields
254
of coin 259 260 Intercourse with our friends 260 Preparations for our departure
260
road 262 263 Ruins of ancient church 263 Jufna Gophna 264 Ain Sînia
267
Nazareth its position 333 Call on Abu Nâsir a merchant 333 Population 833
340
Semûnieh Simonias 344 Jebâta Gabatha 344 Seffûrieh Sepphoris
346
different ages 352 353 Churches and altars 353 View extensive and beautiful
354
Transfiguration 358 359 Age of the crusades churches and convents 359
359
A temporary stream upon the plain now dry but often full 363 864
366
to Khân etTujjâr 368 369 Damascus road Ard elHamma Kefr Sabt 369 Plain
379
Hot baths further south new building 383 General character 384 Historical
386
Founding of Tiberias Historical Notices 389 390 Inhabited later only by Jews
393
Fine plain beyond Mejdel the Gennesareth of Josephus 400 Search for Capernaum
401
that plain ruins Dûkah 410 411 Character of the Batihah Ghawârineh
411
Gaulonitis or Julias 413 414 Character of the upper Jordan 414 Its valley
417
Apparently the central point of that of 1837 phenomena 424 His
432
Gorge of the Litany and Lebanon further south Jebel Safed 438 Wady etTeim
438
Volcanic stones and extinct crater 444 445 ElJish Giscala
447
Haddâta castles of Tibnîn Toron and eshShŭkîf Belfort 450 Hist Notices
454
for our tent 461 American consular agents in Syria 461 Go to the house of
462
Port now fast filling up 464 Rocky western shore 464 Strewed with columns
471
River elKâsimiyeh Leontes 472 473 Great Phenician plain 473 Adlàn
480
ancient Bostrenus 485 486 Mulberry orchards southern heights of Lebanon
486
and aspect of the town 491 492 Gardens and verdure around houses of the Franks
492
andria 498 499 Constantinople 499 The Danube 499 500 Dangerous illness
500
Organization 503 Greek Catholics 504 Clergy are natives
505
Nusairiyeh 512 Ismailiyeh
512
XXXVI
519
STATIONS OF THE ISRAELITES Synoptical view
528
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS ON PALESTINE etc 533555
533
ITINERARY
563
INDEX I
577
PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE Illustrated
599

Outras edições - Ver todos

Termos e frases comuns

Passagens mais conhecidas

Página 21 - And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
Página 40 - And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
Página 272 - Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest t behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields ; for they are white already to harvest.
Página 275 - Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel; then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you : for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
Página 431 - Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
Página 313 - Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa.
Página 274 - So they feared the Lord, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
Página 259 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Página 194 - And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. 12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai ; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
Página 515 - A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again, translated from a manuscript written by the Prefetto of Egypt, in company with some missionaries de propaganda fide, at Grand Cairo: To which are added, Remarks on the Origin of Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of the ancient Heathens.

Informações bibliográficas