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Tomb Of Jesse And Ruth
, alternate_name = Mashhad al-Arba’in (Sanctuary of the Forty), later D(a)ir al-Arba'in (Mosque of the Forty itnesses , image = Tomb of Ruth and Jesse Hevron 06.jpg , alt= , caption= , map_type= , map_alt= , map_size = 220 , location = Deir Al Arba'een, Hebron , region = West Bank , coordinates = , type = tomb , part_of= , length= , width= , area= , height= , builder= , material= , built= , abandoned= , epochs= , cultures= , dependency_of= , occupants= , event= , excavations= , archaeologists= , condition= , ownership= , public_access= , website= , notes= The tomb of Jesse and Ruth ( he, קבר ישי ורות, Kever Yishai v'Rut) is an ancient structure located within the ruin of Deir Al Arba'een in the Tel Rumeida section of Hebron that Jewish tradition considers to be the tomb of Jesse and Ruth. The place is in area H2 of Hebron, under Israeli control. A small synagogue in the room adjacent to the tomb receives visitors throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deir Al Arba'een
Deir Al Arba'een ( ar, دير الأربعين, lit=Sanctuary of the Forty), also Masha'ad Al Arba'een, is a ruined building approximately 300 meters to the West of the Old City of Hebron. It is considered the most notable ancient structure on Tel Rumeida. It was described by the PEF Survey of Palestine in 1874 and by Andreas Evaristus Mader in 1911–14. A corner of the building contains what is thought to be the Tomb of Jesse and Ruth.Denys Pringlebr>''The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus: Volume 2, L-Z'' Cambridge University Press, 1998 pp.203–204. Description The ruin, surrounded by a quadrangular wall structure and vaulted rooms, consisted of a single cell chapel and semi-circular apse. The central structure measures 5.5 by 10 metres, surrounded by a quadrangular wall measuring 25 by 30 metres that enclosed vaulted rooms. It is sited above what was formerly known as the 'Ain Khibra, renamed the 'Ain Judaida. The PEF Survey of Palestine described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Ben-Eliyahu
Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right")blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also the progenitor of the Israelites, Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph (Genesis), Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan according to biblical narrative. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, Benjamin's name appears as "Binyamēm" (Samaritan Hebrew: , "son of days"). In the Quran, Benjamin is referred to as a righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph. Later rabbinic traditions name him as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, the other three being Chileab, Jesse (biblical figure), Jesse and Amram. Name The name is first mentioned in letters from King Sîn-kāšid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Hebron
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, monument, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the :Human habitats, human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tombs Of Biblical People
A tomb ( grc-gre, τύμβος ''tumbos'') is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called ''immurement'', and is a method of final disposition, as an alternative to cremation or burial. Overview The word is used in a broad sense to encompass a number of such types of places of interment or, occasionally, burial, including: * Architectural shrines – in Christianity, an architectural shrine above a saint's first place of burial, as opposed to a similar shrine on which stands a reliquary or feretory into which the saint's remains have been transferred * Burial vault – a stone or brick-lined underground space for multiple burials, originally vaulted, often privately owned for specific family groups; usually beneath a religious building such as a church ** Cemetery ** Churchyard * Catacombs * Chamber tomb * Charnel house * Church monum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Zion Tavger
Ben Zion Tavger (russian: Бенцион Аронович Тавгер, he, בן ציון טבגר), August 5, 1930 (Barysaw) - July 22, 1983, was a physicist and an activist for the renewed Jewish community of Hebron. Early years Tavger was born in 1930 in the city of Barysaw (now in Belarus). His family then moved to Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) in Russia. He studied physics at Moscow University and at the University of Gorky, graduating in 1952. In 1961 Tavger began underground Zionist activities, organizing a group of students who studied Zeev Jabotinsky's books and articles and prepared for immigration to Israel. In 1968, Tavger was expelled from the University of Gorky and deprived of teaching privileges throughout the region. He was subsequently accepted as a senior researcher at the Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics in Novosibirsk. Here he again led a group of young Zionists. Immigration to Israel In May 1972, Tavger immigrated to Israel, arriving at Nazareth Illi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Pinkerfield
Jacob Pinkerfeld, also spelled Pinkerfield (1897–1956) ( he, יעקב פינקרפלד) was an Israeli archaeologist and architect. Biography Jacob Pinkerfeld was born in the city of Przemysl, Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia, Poland in 1897, the son of an architect. He joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement and later studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, College of Technology in Vienna, Austria. Pinkerfeld moved to the Land of Israel with Hashomer Hatzair in 1920 and lived in Zichron Ya'acov. He returned to Europe to recover from malaria and pneumonia, after which he graduated university as an engineer-architect in 1925. That year, Pinkerfeld moved back to the Land of Israel. Architecture and Jewish art research Pinkerfeld worked as an architect and designer, building a large number of public structures. According to the Artlog website, "his dream was to establish a Research Institute for Jewish Art. Together with a group of friends he founded "Ganz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomb Of Machpela
A tomb ( grc-gre, τύμβος ''tumbos'') is a :wikt:repository, repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called ''immurement'', and is a method of Disposal of human corpses, final disposition, as an alternative to cremation or burial. Overview The word is used in a broad sense to encompass a number of such types of places of interment or, occasionally, grave (burial), burial, including: * Shrine, Architectural shrines – in Christianity, an architectural shrine above a saint's first grave (burial), place of burial, as opposed to a similar shrine on which stands a reliquary or feretory into which the saint's remains have been transferred * Burial vault (tomb), Burial vault – a stone or brick-lined underground space for multiple burials, originally vault (architecture), vaulted, often privately owned for specific family groups; usually benea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zev Vilnay
Zev Vilnay ( he, זאב וילנאי, 12 June 1900 – 21 January 1988) was an Israeli geographer, author and lecturer. Biography Zev Vilnay was born as Volf Vilensky in Kishinev, Russian Empire (now in Moldova). He immigrated to Palestine with his parents at the age of six and grew up in Haifa. He served as a military topographer in the Haganah, and later in the Israel Defense Forces.''Encyclopaedia Judaica'', "Zev Vilnay," Keter Publishing, Jerusalem, 1972, vol. 16, p. 151 Vilnay and his wife Esther lived in Jerusalem. Their eldest son, Oren Vilnay, is an expert in structural engineering who established the Department of Civil Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The other son, Matan Vilnai, is a politician who served as a member of the Knesset and held several ministerial portfolios before becoming ambassador to China. Land of Israel studies Vilnay was a pioneer in the sphere of outdoor hiking and touring in Israel. Vilnay lectured widely on Israeli geography, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Hugues Vincent
Louis-Hugues Vincent (31 August 1872 – 30 December 1960) was a French archeologist, archaeologist, monk of the Dominican Order, who was educated at Jerusalem's École Biblique. He undertook important archaeological research in Palestine (region), primarily during the Mandatory Palestine period. Biography He was born on 31 August 1872 in Isère in the commune of Vernioz, near Lyon. Immediately after his Dominican novitiate training, in 1891, he was sent to Jerusalem at the Biblical School ("École Biblique") of St. Stephen's Basilica, Jerusalem, St. Stephen's Basilica, founded a year before by Marie-Joseph Lagrange. Vincent remained there all his life, with the exception of long stays in France during the World Wars. At the École Biblique, Louis Vincent studied and was ordained a Catholic priest. Soon he became one of the most learned scholars in the field of biblical archaeology, including ceramics and ancient objects, lecturing on archaeology at the school. He came to know al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliyahu De Vidas
Eliyahu de Vidas (1518–1587, Hebron) was a 16th-century rabbi in Ottoman Palestine. He was primarily a disciple of Rabbis Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (known as the ''Ramak'') and also Isaac Luria.Fine 2003, pp81 "Cordovero was the teacher of what appears to have been a relatively loose knit circle of disciples. The most important Elijah de Vidas, Abraham Galante, Moses Galante, Hayyim Vital, Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukhim, Eleazar Azikri, Samuel Gallico, and an important kabbalist who studied with Cordovero for a short while in the 1560s, Mordechai Dato." De Vidas is known for his expertise in the Kabbalah. He wrote ''Reshit Chochmah'', or "The Beginning of Wisdom," a pietistic work that is still widely studied by Orthodox Jews today. Just as his teacher Rabbi Moses Cordovero created an ethical work according to kabbalistic principles in his Tomer Devorah, Rabbi de Vidas created an even more expansive work on the spiritual life with his Reishit Chochmah. This magnum opus is l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abner
In the Hebrew Bible, Abner ( he, אַבְנֵר ) was the cousin of King Saul and the commander-in-chief of his army. His name also appears as "Abiner son of Ner", where the longer form Abiner means "my father is Ner". Biblical narrative Abner is initially mentioned incidentally in Saul's history, first appearing as the son of Ner, Saul's uncle, and the commander of Saul's army. He then comes to the story again as the commander who introduced David to Saul following David's killing of Goliath. He is not mentioned in the account of the disastrous battle of Gilboa when Saul's power was crushed. Seizing the youngest but only surviving of Saul's sons, Ish-bosheth, also called Eshbaal, Abner set him up as king over Israel at Mahanaim, east of the Jordan. David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties. The only engagement between the rival factions which is told at length is noteworthy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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