The Holy Land in the light of recent surveys and explorationsA hand book for Sunday-school teachers and Bible students . rraces, such as the succession of rangesclosely built upon one another, by which the countryrises from Lydda to Bethel. That is, the low hills westof Samaria are mere slopes of the Central Range, andnot a separate group. But south of Ajalon the lowhills do not so hang upon the Central Range, but areseparated from the mountains of Judaea by a series ofvalleys, both wide and narrow, which run all the wayfrom Ajalon to near Beersheba ; and it is only whenthe low hills are thus
The Holy Land in the light of recent surveys and explorationsA hand book for Sunday-school teachers and Bible students . rraces, such as the succession of rangesclosely built upon one another, by which the countryrises from Lydda to Bethel. That is, the low hills westof Samaria are mere slopes of the Central Range, andnot a separate group. But south of Ajalon the lowhills do not so hang upon the Central Range, but areseparated from the mountains of Judaea by a series ofvalleys, both wide and narrow, which run all the wayfrom Ajalon to near Beersheba ; and it is only whenthe low hills are thus flung off the Central Rangeinto an independent group, separating Judaea fromPhilistia, that the name Shephelah seems to have beenapplied to them. 39. This difference in the relation of the low hillsto the Central Range, north and south of Ajalon, illus-trates two important historical phenomena : First, itexplains some of the differences between the historiesof Samaria and Judah. While the low hills oppositeSamaria are really only approaches, slopes and terracesof access to Samarias center, the southern low hills—. 1
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