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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s of the old fortifications have beendiscovered (p. 70). The E. scarp of the plateau was once muchmore abrupt tlian it is at present. Through the accumulation ofthe rubbish of thousands of years, the lowest part of the KidronValley (p. 79) is now 30 ft. farther to the E. than it used to be,while at the S.E. corner of the Temple Hill it was formerly 36 ft.deeper tlian it now is. The actual site of the city was also muchless level than at present; what is now recognizable only as ashallow depression was formerly a distinct valley, running fromthe vicinity of the present Damascus Gate first towards tlie S.E.and then towards the S. Tliis depression (p. 49), called by JosephusTyropoeon, i.e. Valley of Dung (wrongly translated the Cheese-mongers Valley), but not mentioned in the Bible, attained a depthof about 60 ft. below the present level (p. 66) and separated thenarrow and abrupt E. hill from the W. hill, which was 110 ft.higher. Roth hills were also cross-sectioned by other depressions.
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ngravod A printei hv Topography. JERUSALEM. 4. Route. 31 In tbe earlier parts of the Old Testament Mount 7Aon aiid Jeru-salem are clearly distinguished from each Other (comp. Is. x. 12).Mount Zion was the dwelling-place of Jehovah (Joel iv. 21; Micahrv. 2; Is.vin. 18), and the site of the Castle of David (1 Chron. xi. 7).As the Temple undoubtedly stood upon the E. hill, we must there-fore recognize it as Mount Zion and place the town proper on theW. hill, opposite the Castle of David. The tradition which assumesthat the Castle lay on the S. end of the W. hill (comp. p. 70) Isexplained by the popular designation of the whole of Jerusalem asthe Daughter of Zion (Is. lxii. 11). The name Moriah also occursoccasionally as the religious designation of the Temple Hill (Gen.XXII. 2; 2 Chron. in. 1). To the N. of the Castle of David rose theTemple and Palace of Solomon, the level surface required for whichwas provided by enormous substructures. The Temple lay on thesite of the present Dome of

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