JERUSALEM EXPLORED

CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I. PAGE

ORIGIN OF THE NAME JERUSALEM--HISTORY--TOPOGRAPHY AND GENERAL
ASPECT--CLIMATE--POPULATION--WATERS 1


CHAPTER II.

ANCIENT TOPOGRAPHY OF JERUSALEM--IDENTIFICATION OF THE
MOUNTAINS, HILLS AND VALLEYS--JERUSALEM IN THE TIME OF THE
JEBUSITES, DAVID, SOLOMON, JOTHAM, HEZEKIAH, MANASSEH,
NEHEMIAH, HEROD--THE TESTIMONY OF JOSEPHUS EXAMINED--THE
SIEGE BY TITUS--FORMER EXTENT OF THE CITY--JERUSALEM IN THE
TIME OF HADRIAN, THE CRUSADERS AND SOLYMAN 16


CHAPTER III.

MOUNT MORIAH AND ITS ENVIRONS--HISTORY IN THE TIME OF
ABRAHAM, JACOB, DAVID, SOLOMON, ZERUBBABEL, ALEXANDER THE
GREAT, ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, THE MACCABEES, POMPEIUS, CRASSUS,
THE HERODS, TITUS, HADRIAN, CONSTANTINE, JULIAN THE APOSTATE,
OMAR, ABD-EL-MALEK, VALID OR ELULID, THE CRUSADERS, SALADIN,
SELIM I., SOLYMAN I.--GENERAL EXAMINATION OF MORIAH, WITH
DETAILS OF THE INVESTIGATIONS 45


CHAPTER IV.

THE CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION, AND THE HOSPITAL OF S. JOHN,
WITH THEIR ENVIRONS--HISTORY OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE FROM THE
DEATH OF CHRIST TO THE PRESENT TIME--GENUINENESS OF THE
SEPULCHRE--GOLGOTHA--EXAMINATION OF THE EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR
OF THE CHURCH--RUINS OF THE HOSPITAL 102


CHAPTER V.

INVESTIGATIONS IN THE VIA DOLOROSA (OR THE WAY OF THE CROSS).
THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER REMARKABLE BUILDINGS IN IT OR IN ITS
NEIGHBOURHOOD AND IN THE REST OF THE CITY, TOGETHER WITH ALL
THE CONVENTS OF THE DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES 135


CHAPTER VI.

EXCURSIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE CITY ON THE EAST,
SOUTH, AND SOUTH-WEST--THE VALLEY OF KIDRON, CALLED ALSO THE
VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT, WITH ITS MONUMENTS AND REMARKABLE
PLACES--THE MOUNT OF OLIVES--BETHPHAGE--BETHANY--THE VALLEY
OF HINNOM--THE MOUNT OF EVIL COUNSEL--SOUTH-WESTERN PART OF
THE VALLEY OF GIHON--MOUNT SION--CHRISTIAN CEMETERIES--TOMB
OF DAVID, AND SUBTERRANEAN VAULTS--THE COENACULUM--THE HOUSE
OF CAIAPHAS--THE GROTTO OF S. PETER--THE LEPERS 167


CHAPTER VII.

EXCURSIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE CITY ON THE NORTH AND
WEST--THE MONUMENT OF HELENA OF ADIABENE, AND THE CHURCH
DEDICATED TO S. STEPHEN--ROYAL CAVERNS--GROTTO OF
JEREMIAH--HOUSE OF THE VINE--TOMBS OF THE KINGS--SHEIKH
JERRAH--ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE--TOMB OF SIMON THE JUST--TOMBS AT
THE HEAD OF THE KIDRON VALLEY--KIDRON POOL--VARIOUS TOMBS ON
THE NORTH-WEST--TOMBS OF THE JUDGES--SHEIKH AYMAR--RUSSIAN
BUILDINGS--VALLEY OF GIHON--BIRKET MAMILLAH--MONUMENT OF
HEROD, AND RUINS OF THE CHURCH OF S. BABYLAS--GREEK CONVENT
OF THE HOLY CROSS--PROPERTY OF THE ARCHIMANDRITE NICOFORUS 223


CHAPTER VIII.

ON THE WATERS, FIT OR UNFIT FOR DRINKING, IN JERUSALEM AND
ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD 245


CHAPTER IX.

GENERAL REMARKS UPON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE CITY OF
JERUSALEM 262

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NOTES 281


CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY 311


PRINCIPAL PASSAGES FROM THE HOLY BIBLE 315


PASSAGES FROM JOSEPHUS'S ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS 323


PASSAGES FROM JOSEPHUS'S HISTORY OF THE JEWISH WAR 327


INDEX 333




CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA.


Page 7, line 30, _for_ Hulda _read_ Huldah
Page 10, line 33, _for_ and in 1859 _read_ and in 1861
Page 14, line 2, and page 15, lines 6 and 13, _for_ Sherif _read_
Sherîf
Page 37, line 8, _for_ Barrére _read_ Barrère
Page 43, line 28, _for_ Willebrand _read_ Willibrand
Page 106, line 5, and page 117, line 14, _for_ Abbot _read_ Abbé
Page 145, line 23, _for_ then _read_ be thou
Page 155, head line, _for_ Greek Synagogue _read_ Great Synagogue
Page 207, line 18, _for_ 260 _read_ 270
Page 210, last line, _for_ Note XXII. _read_ Note XVI.

Chapter 1. The numbers of the different nations and sects that inhabit
Jerusalem were taken by the Author, in the service of Surraya Pasha, in
the year 1861.