John Philip Newman - From Dan to Beersheba

JERUSALEM.

FROM

Dan to Beersheba

A DESCRIPTION OF THE

WONDERFUL LAND

WITH

MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS

AND

A PROLOGUE BY THE AUTHOR CONTAINING THE LATEST EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES

BY

JOHN P. NEWMAN, D.D., LL.D.

Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Member of the London Society of Biblical Archology

REVISED EDITION

NEW YORK: HUNT & EATON
CINCINNATI: CRANSTON & CURTS

The two Boundaries.The parallel Mountains.The great Valley.Inspired Eulogies.Sterile Soil.Gibbons Comparison.Natural and miraculous Causes of present Sterility.Testimonies of pagan Authors on the ancient Productions of Palestine.Land coveted by the great Nations of Antiquity.A Land of Ruins.Present Fertility and Fruits.Richness of the North.Volney on the Variety of the Climate of Palestine.Beauties of Spring in the Promised Land.Flowers.Magnificent Scenery.Standard of Landscape Beauty.Palestine is a World in Miniature.Illustrations.Prophetical Descriptions of the twelve Tribeships.Wonderful Correspondence.

Location of Jerusalem.Strong defensive Position of the City.Surrounding Hills and Valleys.Its Situation compared to that of Athens and Rome.True Meaning of the 125th Psalm.Tower of Psephinus.The two Valleys.Height of the adjacent Mountains.A City without Suburbs.Modern Wall.Goliaths Castle.Immense Stones of Solomons Age.Ancient Portals.Beautiful Corner-stone.Pinnacle of the Temple from which Christ was tempted to throw himself.Golden Gate.Tower of Antonia.Objection to Prophecy answered.The Bevel the Sign of Jewish Masonry.Great Cave beneath the City.Wanderings by Torchlight.Solomons Quarry.Tyropean Valley.Five Hills of Jerusalem.Mount Zion.Royal Abode.Herods three Towers.Splendid Church of St. James.House of Caiaphas.Scene of the Last Supper and of Pentecost.Tomb of David.Royal Plunderers.Proof of its Antiquity.Home of the Lepers.Sad Sight.Akra.Bezetha.Napoleons Church.

Mount Moriah.Site of Solomons Temple.Surrounding Walls.Great Fosse.Pashas Palace.Council Chamber of the Jewish Sanhedrim.Jews Place of Wailing.Their cruel Treatment.Scene on Friday Afternoon.Mournful Spectacle.High-priest.Prophecy fulfilled.Solomons Bridge.Its Antiquity.Temple Area.Tower of Antonia.Shrines within the Inclosure.Imposing View.Dome of the Chain.Mosque of Omar.Its grand Exterior.Its History.Its Portals.Its magnificent Interior.Sacred Rock within the Mosque.Traditions.Scene of the Offering of Isaac and of other Scriptural Events.Mosque of El-Aksa.Its Interior and History.Solomons subterranean Passageway.Extraordinary Workmanship.Mosque of Jesus.Solomons great Vaults.They reflect his Genius.Evidence of their Antiquity.Solomons great Lake beneath his Temple.His Work.Vicissitudes of Mount Moriah.

Valley of the Dead.Tombs of the Judges.Of El-Messahney.Of the Kings.Valley of the Kidron.Pillar of Absalom.Traditional Tombs.Jews Cemetery.Funeral Procession.Mount of Offense.Virgins Fountain.Gardens of Siloam.Bridal Party.Pool of Siloam.Of En-Rogel.Vale of Hinnom.Burning of Children.Valley of Slaughter.Potters Field.Solomons Coronation.Pools of Gihon.Pool of Hezekiah.Supply of Water.

Laws of the Credibility of Tradition.Dean Trench on Words.Scenes of the historical Events of Christianity not well defined.Palm Sunday in Jerusalem.Crossing the Mount of Olives.Journey to Bethany.Site of the City.Home of Mary and Martha.Tomb of Lazarus.Christ frequented Bethany.To his Visits is due its Significance.Touching Legends.Resurrection of Lazarus.Scene of Christs triumphal March to Jerusalem.Garden of Gethsemane.Old Gardener.Walls and Iron Gate.Place of Sweet Repose.Flowers.Pictures.Aged Olive-trees.Overwhelming Emotions.Ascent of the Mount of Olives.Three Paths.Davids Ascent.Connection of the Mount with the two Dispensations.Scene of the Ascension.True Place.Commanding View from the Summit of Olivet.Passion Week in Jerusalem.Footsteps of our Lord.Good Friday in the Holy City.Visit to the Garden.Lords Supper.Sleepless Night.Calvary.True Location.Its Appearance.Appropriate Place.Via Dolorosa.Pilates Judgment-hall.Ecce Homo Arch.Legendary Stations.Crucifixion of Christ dramatized by the Latin Monks.The Procession.Ascent to Calvary.Tumult.Spectators.Sermons.The Cross.Church of the Holy Sepulchre.Architecture.Scene in the Court.The Faade.Imposing Interior.Chapel of the Greeks.Rotunda.Dome.Holy Sepulchre.Magnificent Decorations.Its Interior.The Tomb.Holy Shrines.Not the Tomb of Christ.Difficulties of the Question.Evidence for its Identity.Objections.Argument against the Site.

Forty Days and forty Nights in the Holy City.Inside View of Jerusalem.Streets.Buildings.Commerce.A Cosmopolitan City.Government Officials.Taxation.Population.Turks.Dervishes.Fast of Ramadan.Feast of Beiram.Moslem Sects.Their Creeds.Quarter of the Jews.Their wretched Condition.Their Nationalities.Pensioners.Jewish Passover.Ceremonies witnessed.Jewish Sabbath in Jerusalem.Synagogue.Education.Mr. Touro and Sir Moses Montefiore.Religious and Industrial Institutions.Christian Sects in the Holy City.Armenians.Their Wealth.Greeks.Their Influence.Latins.Their Edifices.Monastic Quarrels.Curious Scene.Rivalry between France and Russia.Russian Gold.Protestant Christianity in Jerusalem.English Church.House of Charity.The two Slave Girls.

Road to Jericho.Delay.Caravan.Robbers.Ladies.Scenery.Waters of Enshemesh.Wilderness of Judea.Scene of Christs Temptation.Thieves of Jericho.Parable of the Good Samaritan.Brook Cherith.Wild Region.Elijah fed by the Ravens.First View of the Plain of the Jordan.Evening at Jericho.Ruins of the ancient City.Historical Events.Fountain of Elisha.Ain Dk.Castle of Doch.Jericho of the New Testament.Scene of Herods Death.Town of Riha.Site of Gilgal.Great Events.Sunrise on the Plain of Jericho.Richness of the Plain.Quarantania.Description of Turkish Soldiers.The Ride.Banks of the Jordan.Sources of the Sacred River.The ten Fountains.The three Lakes.Descent and Sinuosities of the River.Glen through which it flows.Flowers and Trees on its Banks.Birds in its Shrubbery and Beasts in its Thickets.Its Color.Depth.Rapidity.Twenty-seven Rapids.Falls.Islands in the River.Roman Bridges.Brook Jabbok.Jacob and the Angel.War Scenes.Entrance of the Jordan into the Dead Sea.Meaning of Jordan.Pilgrims Ford.Charming Scenery.Mountains of Moab.Vision of Balaam.Vision of Moses.His Death.Crossing of the Jordan by the Israelites.Probable Place.Overflowing of the River.Causes.Translation of Elijah.Cure of Naaman.Baptismal Stations of John the Baptist.Bethabara.non.Scene of Christs Baptism here.The Argument for it.Journey to the Dead Sea.Robbers.Features of the Sea.Delightful Bath.Dimensions of the Sea.Its Bed coeval with the Upper and Lower Valleys.Sea larger than formerly.No Outlet.Its Waters evaporate.Peninsula.Island.Surrounding Mountains.Hot Springs of Callirrhoe.Sublime Chasm.Castle of Machaerus.Wild Glen.River Arnon.Scenery.City of Kerak.Ruins of Zoar.Location of Sodom.Manner of its Destruction.Mountain of Salt, cause of the saltness of the Sea.Lots Wife.Ruins of Masada.Besieged by Flavius Silva.Tragical Death of 600 Sicarii, their Wives and Children.Fountain of the Kid.David and Saul.Maon.The Home of Abigail.Journey to Bethlehem.Wilderness of Engedi.A Night with the Monks of Mr Sba.The Monastery.Bethlehem.Its Names.Antiquity.History.Convent of the Franciscans.The Stable of the Nativity.Present Condition.Pictures.The Manger.Tomb of St. Paula.Cell of St. Jerome.Basilica of St. Helena.Evidence that this is the Birthplace of Christ.Stable in a House.Situation of Bethlehem.Population.Beautiful Women.Herodium.Tomb of Herod the Great.Cave of Adullam.Hiding-place of David.Its Wonders.