. A dictionary of the Bible .. . - of Xeapolis; and Neapolis succeeded themore ancient Shechem. All tlie early writers whotouch on the topography of Palestine, testify tothis identity of the two. Josephus usually retainsthe old name, but has Xeapolis iu B. J. iv. 8, §1. Mediterranean. The latter appears in the illustration tothis article. SHECHEM 123^. The Vnl,ey an,, ^^^lj^^^.^<^ The M^d^^^- ™,^ «?«—-- of Mount Ebal, looking Westward. The mountainon the left is Gen^.ra The Mediterranean ,s discernible in the distance. From a sketch by W. Tipping, Esq. says (Adv. Hner. iii.
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . - of Xeapolis; and Neapolis succeeded themore ancient Shechem. All tlie early writers whotouch on the topography of Palestine, testify tothis identity of the two. Josephus usually retainsthe old name, but has Xeapolis iu B. J. iv. 8, §1. Mediterranean. The latter appears in the illustration tothis article. SHECHEM 123^. The Vnl,ey an,, ^^^lj^^^.^<^ The M^d^^^- ™,^ «?«—-- of Mount Ebal, looking Westward. The mountainon the left is Gen^.ra The Mediterranean ,s discernible in the distance. From a sketch by W. Tipping, Esq. says (Adv. Hner. iii. 1055): eV 2iki-^ois, tout icTTiv, iv TTJ vvv\ ISSediroXei. Jeromesays in the Epit. Paulae: Transivit Sichem, quaenunc appellatur. The city received itsnew name (Neo7roAis = iVa6!«fos) from Vespasian,and on coins still extant (Eckhel, Boctr. Nximm. iii!433) is called Flavia Neapolis. It had been laidwaste, in all probability, during the Jewish war;and the overthrow had been so complete that, con-trary to what is genei-ally true in such instances,of the substitution of a foreign name for the nativeone,_ the original appellation of Shechem neverregained its currency among the people of thecountry. Its situation accounts for another namewhich it bore among the natives, while it wa.;known chiefly as Neapolis to foreigners. It isnea
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