![]() The monotony of the long lines is relieved by rectangular pilasters, sixteen on each side and eight at the top and bottom. Jud.", IV, ix, 7) have acquired with age almost the tint of bronze. ![]() The mighty blocks of limestone as hard as marble, dressed and closely fitted ("beautiful, artistically carved marble", Josephus, "Bell. The shrine facing northwest and south-east forms a spacious rectangle 197 feet long by 111 feet wide, and rises to a height of about 40 feet. The tomb mentioned by Josephus is undoubtedly the Haram situated in the south-east quarter of Hebron (El-Khalil). Antonini), in spite of Joshua 24:32, while the Mohammedans even to-day regard an Arabian building joined to the northwest of the Haram as Joseph's tomb. Since the sixth century the grave of Joseph has been pointed out at Hebron (Itinerar. According to Rabbinic legends, Esau also was buried in the neighbourhood. Jerome accepted this interpretation (see "Onomasticon des Eusebius", ed. A Rabbinic tradition of not much later date on the strength of a misinterpretation of Joshua 14:15 (Hebron-Kiriath Arba-"City of Four") would place the graves of four Patriarchs at Hebron, and, relying on the same passage, declares Adam to be the fourth Patriarch. cit., II, viii, 2), the brothers of Joseph were also interred in their ancestral burial-place-a hypothesis for which there is no foundation in Holy Writ. Josephus, however, knows the tomb of Abraham and his descendants in the district then known as Hebron (Antiq., I, xiv, 1 xxii, 1 xxi, 3). In the later books of the Old Testament Machpelah is not mentioned. This meaning is admitted into the Targum, into the Syrian translation and into the Vulgate. But in the Greek text the word is rendered "the double cave"-by derivation from the root kafal, "to double". Thus we read "the cave in the field of the Machpelah" in Genesis 23:17-19 44:30 50:13, "the cave of the Machpelah" is twice mentioned (xxiii, 9 xxv, 9). According to the Hebrew text, which always uses the word Machpelah with the article, the Machpelah is the place in which the field with the cave is to be found. The words of the dying Jacob inform us that Rebecca and Lia were also buried in this cave (xlix, 31), and, lastly, Jacob found there his last resting place (l, 13). Sara was buried there in a cave (xxiii, 19), as was later Abraham himself (xxv, 9). The burial-place in the vicinity of ancient Hebron which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hethite for the interment of Sara ( Genesis 23:9, 17). Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99. It is here in Hebron that the end of temporal life connects to the next world and eternity.Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. They proceed towards a light which shines and illuminates the scene. In the painting, a procession of people enters under a vaulted ceiling into hidden chambers within. The first time Abraham entered the cave, he saw Adam and Eve and a light emanating from the Garden of Eden ( Zohar 1:128b). ![]() Machpelah comes from the root Hebrew word kaful, double, referring to the double cave and to the four special couples buried there: Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. The quintessential image of Hebron is the Cave of Machpelah. This painting was part of a commission to paint the elemental aspects of the four holy cities of Israel. and the field and the cave within it were established to Abraham as burial property.” And afterwards, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah . . . andĪbraham came to eulogize Sarah and to bewail her. . . . “ Sarah died in Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron . . .
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