place names in Palestine and Transjordan compiled by Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea. The Onomasticon sits uneasily between the ancient genres of geography...
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Look up onomasticon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Onomasticon may refer to: Onomasticon (Eusebius) Onomasticon of Amenope Onomasticon of Joan Coromines...
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description left by a Christian traveler in the Holy Land. In his Onomasticon, Eusebius of Caesarea notes the site of Gethsemane located "at the foot of...
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Eusebius of Caesarea (c. AD 260/265 – 30 May AD 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, was a Greek Syro-Palestinian historian of Christianity, exegete...
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Chronicle of Eusebius, with an introduction by John Knight Fotheringham (Oxford, 1905) Chronicon (Jerome) Mesopotamia in Classical literature Onomasticon (Eusebius)...
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This term appears in rabbinic literature and in Eusebius' Onomasticon. In his Onomasticon, Eusebius mentions seven Jewish settlements that existed in...
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Gospel narrative. The Christian apologist and historian Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Onomasticon (144:28–29), identified it with Ramathaim-Zophim and wrote...
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town later known from the works of Josephus (first century CE) and Eusebius (Onomasticon, early 4th century CE). Archaeologists localize the biblical city...
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in several sources from the Roman and Byzantine periods. In his Onomasticon, Eusebius mentions a place called Thena on the road to the Jordan river, around...
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Jerome (redirect from Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus)
Philo and expanded by Origen A translation and expansion of the Onomasticon of Eusebius, listing and commenting on places mentioned in the Bible For the...
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being an Arabic etymological variant of Aphek. Eusebius, when writing about Eben-Ezer in his Onomasticon, says that it is "the place from which the Gentiles...
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elites well versed in Greek and Latin. In his 4th-century work, the Onomasticon, Eusebius of Caesarea provides a listing of the place-names of Palestine with...
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Eusebius described Sokho (Σοκχωθ) as a double village at the ninth milestone between Eleutheropolis (Bet Guvrin) and Jerusalem (Eusebius, Onomasticon...
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right hand went a fiery law for them." (Deuteronomy 33:2) Both Eusebius (in his Onomasticon, a Bible dictionary) and Jerome reported that Paran was a city...
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Publishing Group. p. 277. ISBN 9780826485717. Eusebius of Caesarea (1971). Wolf, Umhau C. (ed.). Onomasticon (Concerning the Place Names in Sacred Scripture)...
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(inaccurate) story as told within Jerusalem. In his Onomasticon (ed. Klostermann, p. 102, 16), Eusebius says the "field of Haceldama" lies nearer to "Thafeth...
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and incite disturbances against him. In the early 4th-century CE Onomasticon, Eusebius refers to the place as Dabeira and Dabrath, and describes it as...
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the city was affiliated with Baal worship at an earlier date. In Eusebius' Onomasticon, Kiryat Ye'arim is placed about 9 Roman miles, or about 15 km (9 mi)...
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mentioned in Greco-Roman sources including the writings of Josephus. Eusebius, in his Onomasticon, mentions the site under the entry of Gaas (Mount Gaash), a mountain...
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Jattir (section Onomasticon)
30:27). In the early-4th century CE, Greek scholar Eusebius mentioned the town twice in his Onomasticon: "Ietheira is now a very large village in the interior...
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have been the actual location of this event. Eusebius of the 4th century share this view in his Onomasticon. In 1994, Nabih Berri, Lebanon's Parliament...
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Hellenised Land of Israel/Palestine region and found as such in the Onomasticon written by Eusebius of Caesarea in the 4th century. Gabatha may also refer to:...
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of the springs. Another possible location, which is by Eusebius' description in his Onomasticon (written before AD 324), is at "a village in the (Jordan)...
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name does not appear again, apart from an unclear reference in Eusebius' Onomasticon, until a similar name, "Nazoreans", is distinguished by Epiphanius...
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"Rubba ruins"), is an ancient site in Israel, mentioned by Eusebius in his Onomasticon as possibly referring to a site by a similar name in the Book...
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al-Fikiya being an Arabic corruption of Aphek. Eusebius, when writing about Eben-ezer in his Onomasticon, says that it is "the place from which the Gentiles...
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Gogugwon becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo. Eusebius of Caesarea writes the Onomasticon. Fifty Bibles of Constantine commissioned for use in...
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1 Chronicles 7:28 as a town in the eastern part of Ephraim. Eusebius, in his Onomasticon, makes mention of the site, saying that in his day it was "a...
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other the former village, now town, of er-Ram. Ramah, according to Eusebius' Onomasticon, was located 6 milestones north of Jerusalem (Ailia), opposite Bethel...
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(March–April 1986). "The Garden Tomb". Biblical Archaeology Review. Eusebius, Onomasticon, 365 "Zion". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 19, 2021...
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