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Title: The Jordan Valley and Petra
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Libbey, William
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Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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braces, in whole or in part, the terri-tory of the tribes of Simeon, Judah, Dan, Benja-min, and Ephraim. The name of each tribe isinscribed in large red letters, and is accompaniedby an explanatory text, taken from the Bible. Inthis way parts of Jacobs blessings are worked intothe design, as Zebulon has Genesis xlix., 13;Ephraim, Genesis xlix., 25 ; and parts also of theblessing of Moses. Benjamin has Deut. xxxiii.,12, written beneath it, and Ephraim has Deut.xxxiii., 13. These inscriptions will no doubt havesome value in the department of sacred criticism ofthe Bible. Other explanations are taken literallyfrom the Oiiomasticon of Eusebius. At certainpoints of the map these inscriptions occupy thewhole of the surface, interferinof somewhat with itsclearness, but no doubt serving an important pur-pose in the eyes of its makers. In many cases, thelocalities are designated by tv/o names, the ancientname, and also the name in use in the era of themap. The arms of the Nile have their names
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Madeba / o written either in the streams themselves, or by thesides of them. The exact date of the map is a question whichwill no doubt be solved satisfactorily, but from theform of the letters it certainly seems to have beenmade before the beginning of the sixth century.Among the places pictured is the monastery ofSaint Sapsas, on the east bank of the Jordan, andcontemporaneous documents and references to thisare dated 494-518. Hence we may safely call it amap of the fifth century a.d. The closer study of it, in the exact reproductions,will no doubt disturb many traditions, and open upfresh controversies concerning sacred sites, whichare of interest to all the warring sects in and aroundJerusalem. One of these modern questions hasalready arisen, concerning the home of the father ofJohn the Baptist. A tradition from the time of theCrusaders made Ain Karim, a village two hourswest of Jerusalem, the city of Juda, the residenceof Zacharias and Elizabeth. The Latins erected achapel here i

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