. Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;. orresponds with Oiloh (Josh. xv. 51; 2 12), contains about 4500 inhab., most of whom are Orthodox Greeks(with a large church). There are 700-800 Latins, with a seminary of theLatin Patriarchate and a school, and about 160 Protestants, with a schooland a small church which is served from Bethlehem. Beyond the Tomb of Rachel the road divides; the branch straighton leads to Hebron (p. 108). We, however, turn to the left, and in afew minutes reach the first houses of Bethlehem. From the
. Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;. orresponds with Oiloh (Josh. xv. 51; 2 12), contains about 4500 inhab., most of whom are Orthodox Greeks(with a large church). There are 700-800 Latins, with a seminary of theLatin Patriarchate and a school, and about 160 Protestants, with a schooland a small church which is served from Bethlehem. Beyond the Tomb of Rachel the road divides; the branch straighton leads to Hebron (p. 108). We, however, turn to the left, and in afew minutes reach the first houses of Bethlehem. From the pointwhere the road bends to the right a narrow path straight on brings usto the (2min.) so-called Davids Well, consisting of three cisternshewn in the rock. Since the 15th cent, tradition has associated thisspot with the narrative in 2 Sam. xxiii. 14-17. Close beside the wella necropolis has been discovered with inscriptions in red pigment(mostly names of the deceased). In the vicinity is a fine mosaicpavement with a Greek inscription (Psalms cxviii. 19), probably iiTNJLiNSiMJ(BEIT LAHM) 1:
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