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Title: Bible and spade; lectures delivered before Lake Forest college
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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eems to have been the house of the high priest,Caiaphas; also the stair street which led down from thetop of the hill, where the house was in which Jesusate the Last Supper with his disciples, to the pool ofSiloam, and the water gate. On the eastern hill, ancient Ophel, the Germanarchaeologist, Gunkel, conducted some slight excava-tions in the first decade of this century. Later Cap-tain Parker, an Englishman, conducted more considera-ble underground excavations on the eastern side ofthis hill, about the Virgins spring and northward. Bythe side of these latter excavations southward, throughthe generosity of Rothschild of Paris, excavationswere also conducted under Jewish auspices, Parkerand Weil giving the general impression of being ingreat rivalry to find the old royal tombs and the oldtemple treasures. Whatever the cause of these twoexcavations, they have brought to us considerableknowledge of the city, enabling us to understand,somewhat better than before, the history of that part
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Frank Mountain, an artificial mountain a few miles southeast of Bethlehem, built by Herod for his tomb, as the early Pharaohs built pyramids. Later, a crusading fort, where the Knights Templars made their last stand. The Exploration of Palestine 189 of Jerusalem, and bringing us final confirmation of theoriginal site of Davids city, of the character of thatcity, and of the place of the Acra of the Maccabeanperiod, so long in dispute. In my last lecture I toldyou the story of the 84th Psalm. It would have beenimpossible to have made such a discovery as thatbefore the excavations of the Assumptionist Fathers,and of Parker and Weil. This completes the list of excavations which deservethat name in Palestine before the war. With condi-tions after the war I will deal at the conclusion of thislecture. I have referred to the lesser excavations con-ducted in various parts of the country by natives toprocure material for dealers.. The results of theseexcavations have gone, for the most part, to

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