A dictionary of the . ilson, Major Wil- ! son, W. M. Thomson, Stanley, Hep-worth Dixon, Ritter, Baedeker, De-litzsch, Plumptre, Schaff, and others. Tell Hum is a ruin near the Sea ofGalilee, about two miles south-west ofwhere the river Jordan enters the \ Minyeh is a Saracen inn on thenorthern extremity of the plain ofGennesaret (el-Ghliweir), about 5 milessouth-wrest of the mouth of the Jordanand 1\ to 3 miles below Tell Hum. andsituated near the lake. Several other places have been sug-gested : as Ain Mudawarah, once urged, | but afterward abandoned, by Tristram,and ruins nea
A dictionary of the . ilson, Major Wil- ! son, W. M. Thomson, Stanley, Hep-worth Dixon, Ritter, Baedeker, De-litzsch, Plumptre, Schaff, and others. Tell Hum is a ruin near the Sea ofGalilee, about two miles south-west ofwhere the river Jordan enters the \ Minyeh is a Saracen inn on thenorthern extremity of the plain ofGennesaret (el-Ghliweir), about 5 milessouth-wrest of the mouth of the Jordanand 1\ to 3 miles below Tell Hum. andsituated near the lake. Several other places have been sug-gested : as Ain Mudawarah, once urged, | but afterward abandoned, by Tristram,and ruins near Bethsaida Julias: buttheir claims are generally regarded as j not well supported. The argument from tradition is divid- I ed between Khan Minyeh,a,nd Tell Hum,159 CAP CAP but prevailingly in favor of Tell ( Tent- Work in Palestine, ii. 182)claims Jewish and Arab tradition forKhan Minyeh, but Dr. Thomson andFurrer claim it decidedly for Tell arguments for Khan Minyeh,briefly stated, are: (1) It is near the. Kafr) of Nahum, and Tell Hummeans the mound or ruins of Hum—i. e. Nahum. The strongest argument against KhanMinyeh is the absence of ruins of suffi-cient importance to indicate a city ofthe size of Capernaum. The English Sur-vey party in 1866jf dug up at Khan Min-\ yeh chiefly fragmentsof pottery; Kitchenerin 1877 examined themore extensive exca-vations, bringing tolight what appearedto him to be a wallof squared conjecturesthat the ruins of Ca-pernaum were trans-ported to Tiberias,butTiberias was alreadybuilt when Caper-naum was in itsprosperity. Thoseplace Caper- who naum at Khan Min- Gennesaret, from Khan Minyeh. (From a Photograph taken for thePalestine Exploration Fund.) yeh usually locate sea-shorer while Tell Hum is at somedistance from the shore; (2) it is inthe land of Gennesaret, if Gennesaret isidentical with el-Ghuweir ; (3) it is welllocated for a custom-house, on the high-way from Jerusalem to Damascus. The arguments in sup
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