Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht
Share Embed Flag
Download ePaper

Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht

Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht

searchformecca.com
from searchformecca.com More from this publisher
31.03.2015 Views

1 594 EXPLORATIONS IX BIBLE LANDS the situation of a place is conditioned not merely by a knowledge of its name and of the site of its supposed ruins, but to an equal extent by the consideration of the roads and of the general contour of the ground. According to the statement of distances given in the " Peutingerian Tables " and others, the ancient Capitolias, an important city of the Kast-Jordanic country, should be looked for on the road from Gadara to Adraha, i.

DURING 19 CENTURY: PALESTINE 595 with better success. This society was likewise founded (in the year 1878) for the purpose of making a strictly scientific exploration of the Holy Land. For the geographical surveys of the land itself it acquired a valuable expert in the person of Dr. Schumacher in Haifa. In the year 1884 he undertook the survey of the Jolan, a stretch of country extending to the east of the lakes of Tiberias and Hule as far as the plain of Bashan. In the following year this survey was pursued still farther towards the south (south of the Yarmuk). The publication in 1886 of the map of the Jolan, with a detailed description of this district, was followed in 1897 by the map of Southern Bashan, which includes the land towards the east as far as the mountains of Hauran, so difficult of access. Since the year 1889 we have been in possession of the first map of the latter prepared by the hand of a specialist. Dr. Stiibel, the geologist, visited the region in the year 1882. On the basis of his surveys, and by utilizing all other accessible material, the German Palestine Society was enabled to have a map prepared which, diverging widely from former representations, for the fir§t time offered a true picture of this region. The numerous lava fields of varying size and form, the broad and flat top of the mountain range in great measure volcanic, and the long level valleys of old Bashan are the characteristic features of this region, so extraordinarilv interesting as regards geographv and especially geologv. These regions in the northern part of the East-Jordanic territory indeed form but to a small extent part of the land of Israel proper, but they are often mentioned in the Old Testament. The Hauran range is mentioned in Psalm 68: 14, under its old name of Salmon, preserved among the Greeks in the form Asalmanos ; and in the same psalm (verse 15) it is designated as a "gable-range," 1 an appella- 1 The English version renders the Hebrew har gabhnunriim inaccurately by "an high hill (mountain)." — The Editor.

1<br />

594 EXPLORATIONS IX BIBLE LANDS<br />

<strong>the</strong> situation of a place is conditioned not merely by a<br />

knowledge of its name and of <strong>the</strong> site of its supposed ru<strong>in</strong>s,<br />

but to an equal extent by <strong>the</strong> consideration of <strong>the</strong> roads and<br />

of <strong>the</strong> general contour of <strong>the</strong> ground. Accord<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong><br />

statement of distances given <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> " Peut<strong>in</strong>gerian Tables "<br />

and o<strong>the</strong>rs, <strong>the</strong> ancient Capitolias, an important city of<br />

<strong>the</strong> Kast-Jordanic country, should be looked for on <strong>the</strong><br />

road from Gadara to Adraha, i.

logo

products

Resources

Company

Terms of service
Privacy policy
Cookie policy
Cookie settings
Imprint
Change language
Made with love in Switzerland
© 2024 Yumpu.com all rights reserved

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!