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<p> '''''be''''' -'''''zē´tha''''' : Also called by [[Josephus]] the "New City" ( <i> BJ </i> , V, iv, 2), certain suburbs of Jerusalem, North of the Temple, which were outside the second but included within the third wall. [[Bezeth]] (which see) may be the same place. See [[Jerusalem]] . </p> | == [[International]] Standard [[Bible]] [[Encyclopedia]] == <p> '''''be''''' -'''''zē´tha''''' : Also called by [[Josephus]] the "New City" ( <i> BJ </i> , V, iv, 2), certain suburbs of Jerusalem, North of the Temple, which were outside the second but included within the third wall. [[Bezeth]] (which see) may be the same place. See [[Jerusalem]] . </p> == [[Cyclopedia]] of Biblical, [[Theological]] and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature == <p> (Βεζεθά ), the name of the fourth hill on which a part of [[Jerusalem]] was built, situated north of Antonia, from which it was separated by a deep fosse, but not enclosed till the erection of the third wall by Agrippa, according to Josephus (War, 5:4, 2), who interprets the name as equivalent to "New City" (καινὴ πόλις ), perhaps regarding it as the Hebrews חֲדָשָׁה בֵּית; but as this can hardly be considered a representative of the name, and as Josephus elsewhere ( War, 2, 19, 4) seems expressly to distinguish [[Bezetha]] from Caenopolis or the New City (τήν το Βεζεθὰν προσαγορευομένην καί τὴν Καινόπολιν, unless, as [[Reland]] suggests, Palest. p. 855, we should read τὴν καὶ Καινόπολιν, making them identical), we may perhaps better adopt the derivation given above under the BEZETH (See [[Bezeth]]) (q.v.) of 1 [[Maccabees]] 7:19. The general position of the hill is clear; but it has been nevertheless disputed whether it should be regarded as the eminence north of the present [[Damascus]] gate (Robinson, Bibl. Res. 1, 392; Bib. Sac. 1846, p. 438 sq.) or (as is more probable) that immediately north of the present [[Haram]] enclosure (Williams, [[Holy]] City, 2, 50). (See [[Jerusalem]]). </p> <p> Tristram thinks that "beyond a shadow of doubt" this hill "forms the greater part of the [[Mohammedan]] quarter of modern Jerusalem — a broad, irregular ridge, separated from [[Moriah]] by the fosse and great [[Pool]] of Bethesda, from Akra by the Harmonaean valley, and with a rugged, precipitous descent on the east to the valley of [[Jehoshaphat]] or [[Kedron.]] The northern part, now a [[Moslem]] cemetery, is outside the walls" (Bible Places, p. 140). </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_2110"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/bezetha Bezetha from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_25308"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/bezetha Bezetha from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | |||
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