St. Paul, one of the most important early Christian missionaries, was born in 10 CE, in the Cilician city of Tarsus. His writings considerably formed the New Testament, through his missionary activity he essentially changed the religious belief in the Mediterranean region. Jesus called him "Saul...
grew by the free accretion of partial and fragmentary geographical notions, until the garden of Eden came to have a place as definite on the map of the world, in men's eyes, as the Gardens of the Hesperides, the Islands of the Blessed, or the Indian mountain Meru, from which four rive...
The respective position of these ruins will be seen in the accompanying map. We will describe the most important. (1.) The ruins opposite Mosul consist of an enclosure formed by a continuous line of mounds, resembling a vast embankment of earth, but marking the remains of a wall, the ...
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1. This city is mentioned very early in Scripture, being usually supposed to be the Salem of which Melchizedek was king (Ge 14:18). B.C. cir. 2080. Such was the opinion of the Jews themselves; for Josephus, who calls Melchizedek king of Solyma (Σόλυμα), observes that this ...
Samaria, the central region of ancient Palestine. Samaria extends for about 40 miles (65 km) from north to south and 35 miles (56 km) from east to west. It is bounded by Galilee on the north and by Judaea on the south; on the west was the Mediterranean S