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MARITIME CITIES OF PALESTINE.
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Saba, and on the same plain with it. It is strewn with tesserae, Roman bricks, and fragments
of marble, and close to it are the copious streams which form the chief source of the Nahr el
Aujeh (see page 121). Mr. James Finn, in his "Byways in Palestine" (1868), says:—" It is
impossible to avoid the conclusion that this is the true site of Antipatris. The mound has
still a dry trench round it, which must have anciently had its current of water;" and he adds,
" no better spot could have been selected for a military station."
To Antipatris St. Paul was hurriedly conveyed by night from Jerusalem by a military
guard, and thence conducted to Caesarea (see page 108) on the morrow (Acts xxiii. 31, 32). On
the Roman road, between Antipatris and Jerusalem, there is an extensive mound of ruins called
Tibneh, which Christian tradition identifies with Timnath Sera, the city of Joshua and his
burial place (Joshua xxiv. 30). A remarkable tomb in a rock-cut cemetery, on a declivity south
of the mound, is associated with this tradition (see page 125). Lieutenant Conder says:—
" There are niches for over two hundred lamps in front of the tomb entrance. Within there is
a chamber with fourteen graves or kokzm, and a passage which leads to an inner chamber with
only one koka. . . . The great oak-tree some forty feet high, near the tomb, is called
Sheikh et Teim (the chief servant of God)" (see page 124). M. Guerin, who regards this
tomb as the veritable tomb of Joshua, states that the peasants opened the inner chamber
shortly before his visit to the place in 1863, and they found a sort of candelabrum with three
branches, in yellow metal. Flint knives were found in the kokhn of this tomb by the Abbe
Richard in 1870. (For the Samaritan tradition respecting the tomb of Joshua, refer to
page 234, vol. i.)
JAFFA, THE ANCIENT JOPPA.
Jaffa, or rather Yafa, is one of the oldes t seaports in the world, and its name has been
preserved almost unchanged from the earliest times—p\ Yapho, " the beautiful." To the " haven
of Joppa" cedars of Lebanon (see page 475, vol. i.) were sent "in flotes " for the building
of successive Temples at Jerusalem (2 Chron. ii. 16; 1 Esdras v. 55). Jonathan Maccabaeus
besieged Joppa "and won it" (1 Mace. x. 75, 76). The city fell successively under Greek and
Roman sway, and had been several times destroyed and rebuilt before the Arab invasion,
a.d. 636. It was acquired by the Crusaders in 1099, and after having been lost and regained
several times, was finally taken by the Sultan Melek eel Daher Bibars in 1267, who left it
in ruins. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century that the place began to revive.
It was, however, a walled town when Napoleon's army attacked it in 1799, and it was able to
make resistance for a few days, but was finally taken by storm on the 4th of March, and a
terrible massacre of prisoners ensued. Napoleon then caused the fortifications to be strengthened,
and the place prepared for receiving supplies from Egypt, but after his defeat at Acre (refer
to page 75), he gave orders for the fortifications to be entirely destroyed. They were
accordingly blown up on May 27th, 1799. The walls were rebuilt under the superintendence
of English and Turkish officers. No change has been made in the site of the city : the Jaffa
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Saba, and on the same plain with it. It is strewn with tesserae, Roman bricks, and fragments
of marble, and close to it are the copious streams which form the chief source of the Nahr el
Aujeh (see page 121). Mr. James Finn, in his "Byways in Palestine" (1868), says:—" It is
impossible to avoid the conclusion that this is the true site of Antipatris. The mound has
still a dry trench round it, which must have anciently had its current of water;" and he adds,
" no better spot could have been selected for a military station."
To Antipatris St. Paul was hurriedly conveyed by night from Jerusalem by a military
guard, and thence conducted to Caesarea (see page 108) on the morrow (Acts xxiii. 31, 32). On
the Roman road, between Antipatris and Jerusalem, there is an extensive mound of ruins called
Tibneh, which Christian tradition identifies with Timnath Sera, the city of Joshua and his
burial place (Joshua xxiv. 30). A remarkable tomb in a rock-cut cemetery, on a declivity south
of the mound, is associated with this tradition (see page 125). Lieutenant Conder says:—
" There are niches for over two hundred lamps in front of the tomb entrance. Within there is
a chamber with fourteen graves or kokzm, and a passage which leads to an inner chamber with
only one koka. . . . The great oak-tree some forty feet high, near the tomb, is called
Sheikh et Teim (the chief servant of God)" (see page 124). M. Guerin, who regards this
tomb as the veritable tomb of Joshua, states that the peasants opened the inner chamber
shortly before his visit to the place in 1863, and they found a sort of candelabrum with three
branches, in yellow metal. Flint knives were found in the kokhn of this tomb by the Abbe
Richard in 1870. (For the Samaritan tradition respecting the tomb of Joshua, refer to
page 234, vol. i.)
JAFFA, THE ANCIENT JOPPA.
Jaffa, or rather Yafa, is one of the oldes t seaports in the world, and its name has been
preserved almost unchanged from the earliest times—p\ Yapho, " the beautiful." To the " haven
of Joppa" cedars of Lebanon (see page 475, vol. i.) were sent "in flotes " for the building
of successive Temples at Jerusalem (2 Chron. ii. 16; 1 Esdras v. 55). Jonathan Maccabaeus
besieged Joppa "and won it" (1 Mace. x. 75, 76). The city fell successively under Greek and
Roman sway, and had been several times destroyed and rebuilt before the Arab invasion,
a.d. 636. It was acquired by the Crusaders in 1099, and after having been lost and regained
several times, was finally taken by the Sultan Melek eel Daher Bibars in 1267, who left it
in ruins. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century that the place began to revive.
It was, however, a walled town when Napoleon's army attacked it in 1799, and it was able to
make resistance for a few days, but was finally taken by storm on the 4th of March, and a
terrible massacre of prisoners ensued. Napoleon then caused the fortifications to be strengthened,
and the place prepared for receiving supplies from Egypt, but after his defeat at Acre (refer
to page 75), he gave orders for the fortifications to be entirely destroyed. They were
accordingly blown up on May 27th, 1799. The walls were rebuilt under the superintendence
of English and Turkish officers. No change has been made in the site of the city : the Jaffa