Difference between revisions of "Cashel"

<p> formerly an archiepiscopal see in Ireland. This ancient see is now deprived of its metropolitan dignity, and has united to it the sees of Emly, Waterford, and Lismore; the united diocese consisting of the counties of Tipperary, Waterford, and part of Limerick. The incumbent in 1866 was [[Robert]] Daly, D.D., consecrated in 1843. </p> <p> Casiph´ ia (Hebrews Kasiphya´, כָּסִפְיָא , perhaps from כֶּסֶ ), silver, or whitish, if the name be not of Arian origin; Sept. so translates ἀργύριον ), a "place" (מָקוֹם, i.e. region) of the [[Persian]] empire, where [[Levites]] had settled during the Captivity, whence Iddo, with others of them, were sent for by Ezra to join his party returning to [[Jerusalem]] (Ezra 8:17). [[Gesenius]] (Thesaur. p. 703) objects to the identification by some with the Caspiae Pyle, and of others with the city Kaswin, that these are not on the route from [[Babylon]] to Palestine. As this position of the place in question, however, is not clear, it is likely that, if the Caspian [[Sea]] be not designated by this name, it may refer to the "Caspian" Mountains, situated in [[Media]] (Strabo, 11, p. 522, 525; Pliny, 6:15), where [[Jewish]] exiles seem to have been located (Tobit 1:16; [[Tobit]] 3:7). This is at least favored by the rabbinical tradition, Vajikra Rabba (5:5), and is defended by Fü rst (Hebrews HandwSrt. s.v.), who adduces also the local title Albania as a coincidence with the silvery summits of the snow-capped range of [[Caucasus]] (comp. Alp, i.e. albus, "white"). </p>