ISRAEL PHOTOS III -- A COLLECTION OF PHOTOS FROM ISRAELWITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SCENES AND SITES PERTINENT TO THE STUDY OF CHRISTIANITY |
During this trip I was able to measure one of the vertical drops from atop the cliffs below the summit near the middle of the photo as reported in one of the following pages.
(April 2005)
Sign on top of mountain (Sept. 2003)
A plaque on the mountain above the Mt. of Precipice is shown above. The traditional Mount of Precipice was in the photo below, across from the higher mount where the photo was framed from.
The lower trail to the base of the cliff in the lower
center of the photo was the base of the traditional Mt. Precipice
In his book, Sacred Sites of the Gospels, (Oxford 1903) W. Sanday wrote: "There are no less than four so-called Cliffs of Precipitation (referring to the incident of St. Luke iv. 29): one in the hands of the Latins; one in the hands of the Greeks; one some way out of Nazareth (the cliff shown in PL LIII area of the above photos), and the one in the plate, which is not only more probable than the rest, but in itself really probable, as it lies just at the back of ancient Nazareth." Sanday wrote this statement after an extensive tour of early Christian sites.
Plate (photo) described by Sanday as his choice of the traditional precipice
located somewhere behind Nazareth center.
A traveler from England published his description in 1910:
"Perhaps with the exception of Mary’s Well (see below), the only genuine relic of antiquity is the ancient Jewish Synagogue,
now converted into a Greek church, which is well worthy of a visit.
It is quite possible that this was in existence in the time of Christ, and
it may have been the place where He delivered His first memorable
discourse (St. Luke iv., 16-30), which so aroused the indignation of His
fellow citizens that they hurried Him to the brow of the hill to cast Him
down headlong, the punishment of blasphemers (see p. 57 [Talmudic law]).
The so called Mount of Precipitation to the south of Nazareth, which is
the ecclesiastical traditional scene of the incident, seems hardly a
possible site, as it was the brow of the hill “whereon their city was
built,” and the mount in question is some distance away. Probably
the correct scene is on the heights above the Orphanage."
From: GUIDE TO PALESTINE AND SYRIA,1910, MACMILLAN & CO., LONDON:
Map of Nazareth from New Guide to the Holy Land, Father B.
Meistermann, 1907, London
From another source there was supposed to be a 40 foot (30-50 ft high in various descriptions) cliff behind the Maronite Church that some favored as the probable location of the attempted execution of Jesus Christ.
For another page about Jesus' visit to Nazareth:
Israel Photos IV: Nazareth Synagogue
Parable of the Mustard Seed
A Mustard Field Along Highway 87-North Shore of Galilee
Mustard Seeds in the Palm of a Hand
Mustard Flowers
Giant Mustard
Upper Most Seats of the Synagogue
The Fig Tree
Mt of Olives Fig Tree, April 12-13, 2005
Fig and Pomegranite Trees Below Siloam in Jerusalem
Sycomore Fig Tree
The Good Shepherd
The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats
Goat Herder
Camels
Ritual Cleansing
Shechem
The Olive Harvest of Samaria
Mt. Ebal
Olive Tree
Pearl of Great Price
A First Century Synagogue at Gamala
Overview of Gamala
Modern Galilee Fishing Boats
Kursi
Caves and/or Tombs
Steep Slope Near Kursi
Hippos
Feeding the 5,000
On the Mountain
Walking on Water
Ramot-Tzelon area
Mt. Hermon
The Pools of Bethesda in Jerusalem
Healing Pools
Crusader Chapel and St. Ann Church
Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem
Hezekiah's Tunnel
Overlook to Siloam
Tower of Siloam
A Watch Tower in a Vineyard/Olive Grove
Grape Vines at Beth Horan
Towers
Mt. Precipice
South Face
Summit
Over the edge
Measuring Line
View of Nazareth from near Megiddo
Nazareth
The Basilica of the Annunciation
Capernaum
Healing a Paralytic in Capernaum
Bethsaida
Waterskins and Wineskins
The Fish and the Coin
Barbel
A Denarius
Casting Out a Demon
The Road to Jericho
Old Roman Road
Wilderness Above Jericho
Old Jericho
Western Wall
Gethsemane and the Cave of Gethsemane
Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Rolling Stone Tombs - Jerusalem
Other Rolling Stone Tombs
Tiberias
Solar Power in Israel
Salt of the earth
Chorazin
OTHER WEB SITES BY DAVID HALL:
Israel Photos VI
Israel Photos V -- Spring 2011
Israel Photos IV -- Pilgrimage
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