Gaza: A City of Many Battles (from the Family of Noah to the Present Day)

The border town of Egypt, El Arîsh, seventy miles south of Gaza, is generally identified as the "River of Egypt," which was the most southern boundary of the Holy Land in patria...

The god Dagon was worshipped at Gaza and Ashdod, and the goddess Derketo at Askelon. It has been assumed that the two divinities were akin. According to Lucian, Derketo was wors...

The aged and scholarly German, Father Gatt, one of the Latin Clergy attached to the Roman Catholic Patriarchate of Jerusalem, who came to Gaza thirty-three years ago from Austri...

1503-1449 B.C.--Eighteenth Dynasty. In the twenty-second year of his reign, 1481 B.C. (according to Sayce), Thothmes III made his first determined attempt to subdue Canaan. Gaza...

An article of mine, entitled, "Notes on Gaza Coins," appeared in the _Quarterly Statement_ of the Palestine Exploration Fund, April 1912. Since that date my attention has been d...

A.D. 307.--Copies of the Holy Scriptures had escaped their general destruction under Diocletian's Edict, and were still in use at Gaza when persecution raged there in this year.

The Jerusalem Archimandrite Meletius Metaxakis, (now Bishop of Kition, Cyprus), in an article on the Madaba Mosaic Map, _Nea Sion_, May and June 1907, p. 485, states that "accor...

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Gaza--the outpost of Africa, and the door of Asia--is situated in the south-west of Palestine, and is only about twelve miles to the north of Reifah (formerly Raphia), which mar...

Of seven towns along the Palestine and Syrian coast Ascalon was brought into the most frequent contact with the Crusaders, and Gaza received the fewest visits. "The Crusaders al...

The Jerusalem paper, _El-Kuds_, in its issue of February 25, 1910, gave an interesting account of a discovery made at Gaza, and Prof. R. A. S. Macalister has kindly forwarded a...

"The solitary life never found so many votaries in Europe as in Egypt and Palestine. Partly because of the comparative inclemency of the climate, and the proportionate need of m...

In 1878, however, the C.M.S. took over the four schools, two for boys and two for girls, containing some 250 to 300 children, and other work which had been started and carried o...

In January 1884, Mr. H. Chichester Hart visited Gaza, and contributed a valuable paper to the _Quarterly Statement_ of the Palestine Exploration Fund, October 1885, entitled "A...

1. Genesis x. 19.--_The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza._ Thus Gaza is among the earliest of the Canaanitish cities mentioned in Gene...

Meyer supplies some valuable information about the Samaritans in Gaza on pages 71-2, from which I gratefully cull a few sentences. He writes of their having settled there early,...

The one object of archæological interest in Gaza is the Great Mosque (Djamia el Kebîr) which rises on the top of the hill in the middle of the upper city. This mosque is built u...

Arcadius, always weak and indolent, was accustomed to be ruled by his clever wife. "She imagined herself to be religious, because she was liberal in almsgiving, and in building...

The great statue from Gaza was discovered on September 6, 1879, by the natives at Tell 'Ajjûl, about four miles and a half south of Gaza. Captain Conder, in 1882, reported that...

Dagon was represented with the face and hands of a man and the tail of a fish (1 Samuel v. 4). Various kinds of fish were objects of general worship among the Egyptians.

A.D. 304. The Syriac version of the history of the martyrs in Palestine states that THECLA with AGAPIUS was cast to the wild beasts in the year of Timotheus' martyrdom.

Al Nadwan, and other Pashas, ruled Gaza and all Palestine for more than two hundred years. Under the Sultans of Turkey, these Pashas, seven in number, occupied the city after th...

SALAMANES HERMIAS SOZOMENUS, called Scholasticus, came of a wealthy family, and was born at Bethelia, a small town close to Gaza, _c._ A.D. 400, where his grandfather had been o...

On April 17, 1912, an opportunity was afforded me of a lengthy conversation with the Archimandrite Antonius, who was educated at the convent of the Cross, Jerusalem, and the Gre...

With the institutions of Pompey, the freedom of the Jewish people, after having existed for scarcely eighty years, if we reckon it as beginning in 142 B.C., was completely overt...

In early times the Beduins of the desert were glad of a market in Gaza for their spices and frankincense. In fact, according to Dr. Meyer (from whom I freely quote), the foundat...