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Map of Jerusalem in 1925, showing the location of Mount Moriah according to Jewish sources The area around Mount Gerizim is identified by the Samaritans as the "land of Moriah", or "Moreh". Moriah / m ɒ ˈ r aɪ ə / ( Hebrew: מוֹרִיָּה , Mōrīyya ; Arabic : ﻣﺮﻭﻩ, Marwah ) is the name given to a region in the Book of ...
1862 map of Jerusalem showing the Valley of Tyropoeon. Tyropoeon Valley (Greek: φάραγξ τῶν τυροποιῶν pharanx tōn tyropoiōn i.e., "Valley of the Cheesemakers" or "Cheesemongers"), is the name given by the first-century Jewish-Roman historian Josephus to the valley or rugged ravine, which in his times separated Jerusalem's Temple Mount (Mount Moriah) from the Western Hill ...
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A commentary in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges argues that "the face of Gerizim, the mount of blessing, is the more fertile; the opposite face of Ebal, the mount of curse, much the more bare", [13] but the Pulpit Commentary states that both Gerizim and Ebal are "equally barren-looking, though neither is wholly destitute of culture ...
An Israel Railways line, Jaffa-Jerusalem railway, runs from Beit Shemesh along the Brook of Sorek and Valley of Rephaim to the Jerusalem Malha Train Station. The line has since been largely replaced by the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway , which utilizes tunnels and bridges through the Judaean Mountains, runs up to 160 km/h (99 mph) between Ben ...
[7] [8] Remains from the early Roman period include the Pool of Siloam and the Stepped Street, which stretched from the pool to the Temple Mount. [9] The excavated parts of the archeological site are today part of the Jerusalem Walls National Park. [a] [11] The site is managed by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and operated by the Ir ...
Mariah Carey bares it all! The "We Belong Together" chanteuse covers the latest issue of Paper magazine, and she looks better than ever. Carey's revealing cover is one of four new covers for the ...
1859 watercolor of the Foundation Stone by Carl Haag. Although the rock is part of the surrounding 90 million-year-old, Upper Turonian Stage, Late Cretaceous karsted limestone, [citation needed] the southern side forms a ledge, with a gap between it and the surrounding ground; a set of steps currently uses this gap to provide access from the Dome of the Rock to the Well of Souls beneath it.