CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Jerusalem Before A. D. 7. 1Help support New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only 1. This article treats of the City of God, the political and religious centre of the People of Israel, with its destruction by the Romans after it had become the scene of the Redemption. Watch Charlie Valentine Online Hoyts here. This part of the subject will be divided as follows Names. The official PlayStationStore Buy the latest PlayStation games, movies and TV shows for your PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. This article treats of the City of God, the political and religious centre of the People of Israel, with its destruction by the Romans after it had become the scene. The Siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. After being initially besieged by the forces of the Yugoslav Peoples. Download free full unlimited movies There are millions of movies, videos and TV shows watch movies online and download full tv show episodes. Image/covers/under-siege/under-siege-image170439.jpg' alt='Watch City Under Siege Download' title='Watch City Under Siege Download' />According to Jewishtradition Josephus, Antiq. Jud., I, 1. 0 1 Targum Onkelos, Genesis 1. Jerusalem was originally called Salem Peace, and was the capital of King Melchisedech Genesis 1. This tradition is confirmed by the cuneiform tablets discovered in 1. Tell Amarna, in Egypt see below, under III. Lottery Ticket Full Movie In English. History. Five of these letters, written at Jerusalem about the year 1. B. C., inform us that the city was then called U ru sa lim. It figures in Assyrianinscriptions under the name of Ur sa li im mu. According to the Assyriansyllabaries, uru and ursignify city Hebrew ir. In several of the Tell Armana Tablets the word salim is used in the sense of peace. Ursalim, therefore, means City of Peace. The Psalmist, too, connects Salem with Sion He hath his tabernacle in Salem, and his abode upon the mountain of Sion Psalm 7. When the Israelites came into the Land of Promise, Jerusalem was in the power of the Jebusites, and bore the name of Jebus. The Hebrews, however, were not ignorant of its ancient name they often called it Jerusalem Joshua 1. Judges 1. 9 1. 0 2 Samuel 5 6, etc. In other passages of the Bible it is called Jerusalem 1 Chronicles 3 5 Jeremiah 2. Esther 2 6, etc. The Septuagint. Ierousalem. Under the hellenizing influences which invaded Palestine, Salem became Solyma Antiq. Jud., I, x, 2, and Jerusalemta Ierosolyma The Holy. Solyma 1 Maccabees 1 1. Maccabees 1 1. 0 Bell. Jud., VI, 1. 0 etc. The New Testament employs sometimes the Septuagintform and sometimes that of Machabees, which the Vulgate renders by Jerusalem and Jerosolyma. The Syriac. Version gives Uris lem, a form more nearly approaching the Assyrian. When the Emperor Hadrian rebuilt the city, A. D. 1. 36, he gave it the name of lia Capitolina. From the Mohammedan conquest of Palestine, in the seventh century, until our own times, the Arabs have called it El Quds, The Holy the ir haq qodes, or Holy City, of II Esd., xi, 1. Matthew 4 5, etc. Among all other people the name Jerusalem has continued in use until now. Topography. Geographical position. Jerusalem is situated in latitude 3. N. and longitude 3. E. of Greenwich, about 3. English miles in a straight line from the Mediterranean on the west, and 1. Dead Sea on the east. It stands on the crest of a chain of mountains which traverses Palestine from north to south, and the highest point of which, at the northwest corner of the city, is 2. Mediterranean, and 3. Dead Sea. Owing to this difference of level the western slope of these mountains, towards the Plain of Sephela, which extends to the Mediterranean, is gentle, while that to the east is very steep. A girdle of high hills surrounds the city, forming a sort of natural rampart. On the north is Mt. Scopus 2. 70. 5 feet, next to it, on the east, the Mount of Olives 2. Mount of Offence 2. Kings 1. 1 7 2 Kings 2. To the south is the Mount of Evil Counsel 2. Plain of Raphaim, and next, on the southwest, comes a hill 2. Towards the northwest the city is more exposed at some distance in that direction it is dominated by the Nebi Samwil, the ancient Maspha, which has an altitude of 2. Notwithstanding the difficulty of access in its natural situation, Jerusalem is the centre of a network of ancient roads which connect it, on the east, with Jericho and the Jordan on the south, with Hebron and Gaza on the west, with Jaffa and Caesarea on the north, with Samaria and Galilee. It was, however, situated beyond the great military and commercial highways between Egypt and Assyria. Site hills and valleys. The ancient city occupied the same position as the present, except that its southern extremity has remained outside of the walls since the reign of Hadrian A. D. 1. 36. Thanks, however, to systematic operations undertaken by English, American, and German engineers, much of the old southern wall has been brought to light. While, in many places, masses of ruins have changed the appearance of the ground, excavations and vertical borings, made within the last fifty years, have, nevertheless, enabled the explorers to construct sufficiently exact maps of the primitive configuration. The ground on which Jerusalem stands, within this ring of surrounding mountains, is by no means uniform in character on three sides the east, south, and west it stands upon terraced heights bordered by deep valleys which give it the appearance of a promontory jutting out to the south. The city itself is furrowed with ravines which cut it up into a number of little hills. The longest of these valleys measures scarcely two miles and a half they have all been formed by erosion, due to torrential rainfall, in the quaternary period. To the north of the city they take the shape of mere depressions in the soil, then, as they descend, sinking rapidly in the calcareous rock of which the mountains are formed, they soon become deep gorges, all coming together at the southeast angle of the city, at a depth of about 6. The two principal hills rise on the southwest and the east respectively. The former of these hills is called Mount. Sion because, according to Josephus Antiq. Jud., XVI, vii, 1, Eusebius, and all the authors, Jewish and Christian, who have followed them, the city of Jebus, or Sion the City of David stood there. This view, however, is contested by certain modern Palestinologists, who would locate Sion upon the northern declivity of the second of these hills, Mount Moria 2 Chronicles 3 1, where stood the Temple of Jehovah. Mount. Sion is bounded on the west by a valley which begins near the old pool called Birket Mamilla see below, under D, about 1. This valley, following a southeasterly direction as far as the Jaffa Gate, the ancient gate of the gardens Gennath Bell. Jud., V, iv, 2, then turns to the south and forms a great reservoir of water called the Birket es Sultan, by means of a massive dam, which was rebuilt in the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries. This is the Fountain of the Dragon tannin which Nehemias came to when he went out of the city by the western gate D. V., dragon fountain, Nehemiah 2 1. Josephus calls it the Pool of the Serpent Bell. Watch Timber The Treasure Dog Online Full Movie here. Jud., V, iii, 2 the Hebrewtannin simplifies both dragon and serpent. This valley is called by the natives Wadi Rababi in the Bible it goes by the name of Ge Hinnom, or Ge Ben Hinnom, Valley of Ennom in A. V., Hinnom or of the son of Ennom an unknown personage Joshua 1. Nehemiah 1. 1 3. Jeremiah 1. Below the Birket es Sultan, it turns to the east, passes below Halcedama, and connects with the Valley of Cedron. At the junction of the two valleys are the rich plantation forming the kings garden or, in D. V., the kings guard mentioned in 2 Kings 2. Jeremiah 3. 9 4 Nehemiah 3 1. Also at the mouth of the Valley of Hinnom is situated Topheth, the high place where Achaz and Manasses set up the worship of Baal Moloch 2 Chronicles 2. The good King Josias defiled this execrable place, scattering human bones over it 2 Chronicles 3. Joakim restored there the infamousworship of Moloch. From the unholy fires which were kept burning there for nearly a century and a half those fires through which the apostate. Jewscaused their children to pass, in order to consecrate, or immolate, them to Moloch Ge Hinnom in Aramaic, Gehenanm received the name of Geenna tou pyros, Gehenna of the Fire, and became the emblem of hell in Greek text, Matthew 5 2. Mark 9 4. 3 4. 5.