. On Nazareth hill. ary was said to have beenhailed by the angel. Sepphoris and Nazareth are thusat loggerheads about the location of this particularevent. Although its entire population is Muslim the cityis sacred to the Jews, for in 180 the Great San-hedrim, unable to convene in paganized Jerusalemtook up its abode here till a Jewish revolt in 33o, ,caused the destruction of the city. Sepphoris fades from history on the fateful eve ofthe battle of Hattin. All the Christian leaders as-sembled here, — Guy the Latin King of Jerusalem,Reginald the perfidious Lord of Kerak, Raymond ofTri
. On Nazareth hill. ary was said to have beenhailed by the angel. Sepphoris and Nazareth are thusat loggerheads about the location of this particularevent. Although its entire population is Muslim the cityis sacred to the Jews, for in 180 the Great San-hedrim, unable to convene in paganized Jerusalemtook up its abode here till a Jewish revolt in 33o, ,caused the destruction of the city. Sepphoris fades from history on the fateful eve ofthe battle of Hattin. All the Christian leaders as-sembled here, — Guy the Latin King of Jerusalem,Reginald the perfidious Lord of Kerak, Raymond ofTripoli and Tiberias, Balian the Master of the Temple,who here paid over to Guy the gold sent by King Henryof England in expiation of Beckets murder. And herethe fatal mistake was made of leaving the springs andadvancing over a waterless plain to the Horns of Hat-tin, where on July 4th, 1187, the flower of Europeanknighthood perished of thirst and wounds under apitiless sun and the resistless charges of Saladin. [96]. ..??? Photo by S. U. Mitman, SEPPHORIS (The light patch beginning on the middle hill under the cross and extending an inch to the left.) PTOLEMAIS (ACRE) -I HIS town of many names first comes to light in theTell el-Amarna tablets (fourteenth century ) asAcca. The book of Judges calls it Accho. During theGreek period the Egyptian ruler of Palestine renamed itPtolemais, and as such it was known in the time ofChrist, when it was port of entry for all Syria. By theseventh century the Arabs had restored its old crusaders took it, re-christened it St. John of Acre,and made it the chief bulwark of Christian dominion inthe East. Richard of England and Saladin have popu-larized it by their deeds of valor beneath its its long and stormy history it has suffered atleast twenty-three sieges. Among the great namesconnected with it are Sennacherib, Alexander, Herodthe Great, St. Paul, Baldwin, St. Francis of Assisi,and Napoleon. Though the tow
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