. Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;. the mosaic map of Madeba (p. 147). The traces of anancient Christian church were formerly visible. A little way to theS. there are tomb-chambers in the artificially hewn and levelledstratum of rock. At the top of the hill are ruins called Belt Sur,which answer to the ancient Beth-Zur (Josh. xv. 58; Nehem. iii. 16).At the period of the Maccabees Beth-Zur was a place of greatimportance. A little farther on (5 min.) the Mohammedan villageof Halhid (Josh. xv. 58) becomes visible on a hill to th
. Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;. the mosaic map of Madeba (p. 147). The traces of anancient Christian church were formerly visible. A little way to theS. there are tomb-chambers in the artificially hewn and levelledstratum of rock. At the top of the hill are ruins called Belt Sur,which answer to the ancient Beth-Zur (Josh. xv. 58; Nehem. iii. 16).At the period of the Maccabees Beth-Zur was a place of greatimportance. A little farther on (5 min.) the Mohammedan villageof Halhid (Josh. xv. 58) becomes visible on a hill to the left. Themosque of Nebl Yunn8, outside the village, is built, according toMohammedan tradition, over the grave of the prophet Jonah. Someof the later Jewish writers mention a tradition that the prophet Gadwas buried here (2 Sam. xxiv. 11). There are rock-tombs in tlieneiglibourhood. After 35 min. we perceive about 500 yds. to the left of theroad the ruins of a so-called Sanctuary of Abraham, Haram Rdmetel-KhalU. The S. and W. walls only are preserved (71 yds. and IJi( EL-KHALI L) IVomT de Saiilcr. to Hebron. HEBRON. 12. Route, 113 631/2 yds. long respectively), and two or three courses of stone arestill visible. The blocks are of great length (10-16 ft.) and arejointed -without mortar. In the angle of the interior there isa cistern. What purpose the building served, and whetlier it wasever completed, cannot now be ascertained. Jewish tradition placeshere the Grove of Mamre, and the valley is still called the Valleyof Terebinths (pp. 115, 124). About 60 paces farther to the E. is alarge ruined church, probably the basilica erected by Constantineat the terebinth of Mamre. Near it are two oil-presses in the large cistern 5 min. farther to the S. is shown as the bath of to the road, we come, a few paces farther on, to an in-different footpath on the right, which leads past the ruins of the vil-lage ofKhirbet en-Nascird (ruin of the Christians), oxRujum
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