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Title: Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
Subjects: Classical geography
Publisher: London : Walton & Maberly
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Engraved by J * C Walker JERUSALEM,attachecl, perhaps, to two neijlibouring sites after-wards incorporated into one. Tlie sacred narrative,by iinplication, and Josepiins, explicitly, recognisefrom tlie first a distinction between tbe Up()er andtlie Lower city, the memorial of which is supix)sed tobe retained in the dual form of the Hebiew nameDVw-IT. The learned are divided in opinion asto whether the Salem of Slelchizedck is identicalwith Jerusalem. St. Jerome, who cites Josephusand a host of Christian authorities in favour of theiridentity, himself maintaining the oppasite conclusion,says that extensive ruins of tlie palace of Mclchizedckwere shown in his day in the neighbourhood ofScythopolis, and makes the Salem of that patriarchidentical witli Shalem, a city of Shechem (Gen.xxxiii. 18); the same, no doubt, with the Salini nearto Aenon (St. John, iii. 23), where a village of thesame name still exists in the mountains cast ofNabliis. Certain, however, it is that Jerusalem isintende

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