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| Title | Shiloh |
| Creator | Holland, Frederick Whitmore, 1837-1880.
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| Description | Sinai and Jerusalem; or, Scenes from Bible Lands: Illustrated by Twelve Colored Photographic Views, Including a Panorama of Jerusalem, With Descriptive Letterpress. |
| Caption | SHILOH THE position of Shiloh is very accurately described in the Book of Judges (ch. xxi. 19) : it is said to have been " on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah." In journeying northwards from Beitin to Nablus, the ancient Bethel and Shechem, the traveller, just before he reaches El-Lebban, the Lebonah of Scripture, turns off the highway to the right, and, crossing a little plain, reaches the ruins of Seilun—Shiloh. The ruins are scattered over the side of a Ioav rocky hill, and there is little in them to attract attention; but yet they mark the site of one of the earliest and most sacred of the Hebrew sanctuaries. Shiloh (writes Dr. Stanley) is so utterly featureless, that, had it not been for the preservation of its name, and for the extreme precision with which its situation is described in the Book of Judges, the spot could never have been identified ; and, indeed, from the time of Jerome till the year 1838, its real site was completely forgotten, and its name was transferred to the commanding height of Gibeon, which a later age naturally conceived to be a more congenial spot for the sacred place, where for so many centuries was " the tent which God had placed among men" (Psalm lxxviii. 60). There is nothing attractive either in the scenery or the ruins. There is not a single bold feature to relieve the monotony of the rocky slopes of the surrounding hills ; and the ruins are mostly those of a modern village, with here and there a few fragments of columns, and large squared stones, which show that buildings of greater antiquity have stood there. The square building, represented in the accompanying view of the ruins, is of comparatively modern date ; it was once a mosque, and now chiefly attracts attention from the noble oak which overshadows it. Near it stand the |
| Date | 1870 |
| Publisher | London: Printed by Jas. Truscott and Son, Suffolk Lane, City. |
| Subject.Topical (LCSH) | Palestine -- Description and travel.
Sinai Peninsula -- Description and travel.
Jerusalem -- Description and travel.
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| Subject (Geographic) | Palestine
Sinai Peninsula
Jerusalem
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| Original Item Location | http://library.uh.edu/record=b3601783~S11 |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
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