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dlls, the Maccabees erected a castle, the remains of which were visible in
his day, on the northern summit of the ridge, which he gives no name to:
but Adrichomius, after him, calls it Mens Scandali. Subsequent writ
ers, Maundeville, and De Suchem, speak of the northern point as Mount
Galilee, and the latter says there was a village upon it (fourteenth centu
ry.) Quaresmius (about 1620 a. d.,) unites the names Mons Offensionis
and Mons Scandali upon the southern ridge,* which I take to be likely,
as these terms are evidently readings of that used by Scripture, viz., the
“ Mount of Corruption.^
The ancient word Nob, which signifies prophecy, has been entirely
lost since the time of Nehemiah, amid the great events connected with
the Mount of Olives recorded in the New Testament; and its founda
tions lie probably buried under subsequent structures, which have also
since crumbled into ruins: leaving at the present day a church, cover
ing the supposed spot of our Saviour’s Ascension, a mosque, a Wali,
or tomb of a Mahomedan saint, and the small village of Et-Tur 3
with ancient sephulcral vaults excavated in the rocks, one of which is
said to contain the remains of Huldah the prophetess, I copied the
following funereal inscription in a vault covering two tombs ; one of
which, by the inscription, appears to be the resting place of Tharsidos
Metila, with the trite, but true re
mark —“ No one is immortal.” Beit
Hanina, which I take to be the site
of Anania, mentioned by Nehemiah
as one of the cities in connexion with
Nob, and Anathoth, inhabited by the
Benjamites, is about four miles west
from Anathoth, and about the same
distance N. by W. from the Mount of Olives.
The whole ridge of Olivet, and its northerly continuation, the Scopus,
command a most extensive and complete view of Jerusalem, which in
fact cannot be so advantageously obtained from any other point. Parts,
if not the whole, of this commanding ridge> we^e occupied by the armies
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name which Dr. Robinson states he has not beey able to find, noi V
this spot as the place of Solomon’s idolatry, earlier than the time o t •
d. 1233, Cap. IV. Robinson’s Bib. Res. I., p* 565.