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| Titre : | And the Walls came Tumbling Down... : Jericho - Dead Sea - Sodom - Massada |
| Auteurs : | Emmanuel Dehan, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Tel-Aviv [Israel] : Emmanuel Dehan, 1981 |
| Format : | 96 p. / Photos couleurs; cartes couleurs |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | OR/C (Terre Sainte, Israël : cartes et guides de voyage) |
| Résumé : |
JERICHO, the "city of palm trass, the rich oasis in the plain of the Jordan Valley, is the oldest occupied site In the country. It was the first city In Canaan to fall to the Israelites under Joshua, after its "walls came tumbling down".
QUMRAN, the ruins of the settlement of the sect of Essenes, where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls ware found in 1947, are on a hill overlooking the north-western shore of the Dead Sea. These important manuscripts ware discovered in ancient caves on the forbidding cliffs. MASADA, the mighty bastion overlooking the southwest shore of the Dead Sea. was one of the last stands for independence made by the Jews against the Romans. Its fall in 73 A.D., after a long siege, marked the end of that Independence until 1948. SODOM, which in its earlier existence symbolized vice. Is on the southern shore of the Dead See. In its fiery destruction. Sodom became the symbol of the standard judgement on sin, much quoted by the prophets of old in thunderous warning to the people to mend their ways. THE DEAD SEA is in the middle of a great geological fault known as the Great Rift. The rift’s sunken zone lies in the Dead See, a pit whose surface is 1.292 feet below sea level— the lowest sheet of water In the world. |
| Note de contenu : |
- I. FROM JERUSALEM TO BETHANY: Gethsemane, Bethphage, Lazarus Tomb
- II. DESCENT THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS OF JUDEA: Ma’aleh-Adumim, the Inn of the Good Samaritan, sea level point, shrine of Nebi Mousa, the Plain of the Jordan - III. ... AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN: Jericho - the “city of palm trees”, excavated mound of old Jericho where “Joshua fit the battle...”, Elisha’s Fountain, the Mount of Temptation, Jericho’s synagogues, Hisham’s Palace - IV. THE JORDAN RIVER - ENTERING THE PROMISED LAND: The Allenby Bridge, Place of Baptism, the Jordan River, the Land of Peraea, from Jericho to Galilee, from Jericho to the Dead Sea, Giigal, Qumran, Kalia - V. QUMRAN - THE MONASTIC SETTLEMENT OF THE ESSENES: Origin of the Sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ruins of the “monastery” — the communal building, the Dead Sea Scrolls - VI. THE DEAD SEA ALL AROUND: Lowest point on earth, mineral contents, the “Lashon” — “El-Lisan” — the “Tongue” peninsula - VII. THE LAND OF MOAB: Medaba and its map, Mount Nebo — Pisgah, Machaerus, where John the Baptist was beheaded, the Moabite Stone, Kerak - Kir Moab of the Bible - VIII. FROM QUMRAN TO EN-GEDI: Kalia, ’Ain Feshkha, Milzpeh Shalem, Nahal Dragol, En-Gedi of the Song of Songs (of Solomon) and David’s hideout, (he oasis, the Kibbutz En-Gedi’s Inn, bathing beach, Guest House, Youth Hostel, Field School, Nature Reserve, waterfall, Hot Springs, road to Masada - IX. MASADA THE LAST STAND OF THE JEWS AGAINST THE ROMANS: History and survey, description by Flavius Josephus, approach from the west and cast, rediscovery, archaeological excavations, a visit to the National Park of Masada - X. BAR KOKHBAH THE SECOND REVOLT OF 132-135 A.D: The First Revolt and its aftermath, causes of the new uprising, “Son of a Star”, Bethar the sad end, final destruction of Jerusalem, Aelia Capitolina - XI. EN-BOKEK RESORT AREA: Hotels, bathing beach, Hamei Zohar hot springs, Shefech Zohar, road to Sodom - XII. SODOM - UPON WHICH THE LORD RAINED BRIMSTONE AND FIRE: Mount Sodom at the southern end of the Dead Sea, “Lot’s Wife”, the Dead Sea Works extracting minerals from the Dead Sea, Ne’ot Hakikar, the Arabah highway to Eilat, road to Beer-Sheva via Dimona - XIII. TO ARAD AND BEER-SHEVA: Metzad Zohar, ascending above sea level, modern town of Arad, Tell-Arad, Beer-Sheva — capital of the Negev, Bedouin market - XIV. MAPS |
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