The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela: Critical Text, Translation and CommentaryHenry Frowde, 1907 - 183 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 28 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
الصفحة 26 - It hath somewhat very peculiar in it ; for when it runs, its current is strong, and has plenty of water ; after which its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh day as it did before, and as though it had undergone no change at all : it hath also been observed to keep this order perpetually, and exactly : whence it is that they call it the Sabbatic river, * that name being taken from the sacred seventh day among the...
الصفحة 19 - On Mount Zion are the sepulchres of the House of David, and the sepulchres of the kings that ruled after him. The exact place cannot be identified, inasmuch as fifteen years ago a wall of the church of Mount Zion fell in. The Patriarch commanded the overseer to take the stones of the old walls and restore therewith the church. He did so, and hired workmen at fixed wages; and there were twenty men who brought the stones from the base of the wall of Zion. Among these men there were two who were sworn...
الصفحة viii - Herr Epstein considers it to have been written at the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century.
الصفحة 62 - ... paces long, and thick in proportion. And it is so strong that it will seize an elephant in its talons and carry him high into the air, and drop him so that he is smashed to pieces; having so killed him the bird gryphon swoops down on him and eats him at leisure.
الصفحة 37 - I refer to the purple robe of her majesty the queen, the like of which is not to be found in the whole earth, neither do any know where the dye that tinges it is produced, save that it proceeds from the uttermost parts of India.
الصفحة 37 - The ruins of the palace of Nebuchadnezzar are still to be seen, but people are afraid to venture among them, on account of the serpents and scorpions with which they are infested. Twenty thousand Jews live within about twenty miles of this place, and perform their worship in the synagogue of Daniel, who rests in peace.
الصفحة 41 - Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion : for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. 14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
الصفحة 8 - ... inhabitants are very rich in gold and precious stones, and they go clothed in garments of silk with gold embroidery, and they ride horses, and look like princes. Indeed, the land is very rich in all cloth stuffs, and in bread, meat, and wine. Wealth like that of Constantinople is not to be found in the whole world. Here also are men learned in all the books of the Greeks, and they eat and drink, every man under his vine and his fig-tree.