DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.10358#0213
184
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
Jehoshaphat's " valley of blessing." A wide open vale between Tekoa and the road from Hebron to Bethlehem. In
the foreground there is a lime-kiln, and on the distant hill a ruined site, two thousand eight hundred and fifteen
feet above the sea, called Khurbet Bereikuh.
iiBHBPl *ts §,'reat height and massiveness, it is of marvellously beautiful workmanship
—as Josephus describes it, " of beautiful marble and admirably worked." The
II ■■;;} stones are many of them of immense size : one is thirty-eight feet long and
j;i Jtt three and a half feet high, the chiselling is very fine, and all have the true
1 Jewish marginal draft, broad, shallow, and beautifully cut. Sixteen pilasters
_J: strengthen each of the longer, and eight each of the shorter sides. In spite
of recent theories and criticism, it seems impossible to assign to the building
a date later than that of Solomon. It existed in the time of Josephus, who speaks of it with
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
Jehoshaphat's " valley of blessing." A wide open vale between Tekoa and the road from Hebron to Bethlehem. In
the foreground there is a lime-kiln, and on the distant hill a ruined site, two thousand eight hundred and fifteen
feet above the sea, called Khurbet Bereikuh.
iiBHBPl *ts §,'reat height and massiveness, it is of marvellously beautiful workmanship
—as Josephus describes it, " of beautiful marble and admirably worked." The
II ■■;;} stones are many of them of immense size : one is thirty-eight feet long and
j;i Jtt three and a half feet high, the chiselling is very fine, and all have the true
1 Jewish marginal draft, broad, shallow, and beautifully cut. Sixteen pilasters
_J: strengthen each of the longer, and eight each of the shorter sides. In spite
of recent theories and criticism, it seems impossible to assign to the building
a date later than that of Solomon. It existed in the time of Josephus, who speaks of it with