The city of Jerusalem

by C. R. Conder

[388] The Aramaic texts are given by Madden, pp. 329–33.

[389] Tosiphta, Ma’aser Sheni, i. 5.

[390] Tal. Jer., Ma’aser Sheni, i. 2.

[391] Tal. Bab., Baba Kama, 97 b.

[392] Ibid., Bekoroth, 50 a, Aboda Zara, 52 b.

[393] “Hist. Eccl.,” iv. 6; “Demonstr. Evang.,” vi. 18; Jerome on Joel i. 4, on Dan. ix. 27, and on Ezek. xxiv. 14.

[394] “Die Mosaikkarte von Madeba,” 1906, by Prof. Dr. Guthe, and the architect P. Palmer. Count G. T. Rivoira, “Architettura Lombarda,” 1908, p. 328, suggests the time of Justinian for this map.

[395] Bordeaux Pilgrim, 333 A. D. “Item exeunti Hierusalem ut ascendas Sion in parte sinistra et deorsum in valle, juxta murum, est piscina quæ dicitur Siloa”; “intus autem, intra murum Sion, paret locus ubi palatium habuit David.”

[396] Bordeaux Pilgrim. “Inde ut eas foris murum de Sion euntibus ad portam Napolitanam ad partem dextram deorsum in valle sunt parites [sic] ubi domus fuit, sive Prætorium Ponti Pilati.” Napolis (Nea-polis) was the later Greco-Roman name for Shechem, north of Jerusalem.

[397] On Isa. ii. 8 and Matt. xxi. 15.