Mount of Olives - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Mount Of Olives: Encyclopedia Ii - Mount Of Olives - Biblical References
The Mount of Olives is first mentioned in connection with David's flight from Jerusalem through the rebellion of Absalom (2 Samuel 15:30)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lebanon Cedar: Encyclopedia - Lebanon Cedar
Cedrus libani, commonly known as the Lebanon Cedar or Cedar of Lebanon, is a coniferous tree native to the mountains of the Mediterranean...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uzziah Of Judah: Encyclopedia - Uzziah Of Judah
Uzziah of Judah (עוזיהו) (also known as Azariah), was the king of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, and one of Amaziah's sons, whom the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aliyah: Encyclopedia - Aliyah
Aliyah (Hebrew: עלייה; "ascent") is a term widely used to mean Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel (and since its establishment...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter
The Armenian Quarter is one of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. It might appear that the Armenian quarter would be a part ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yad Avshalom: Encyclopedia - Yad Avshalom
The tomb known today as Yad Avshalom (Avshalom's Monument - יד אבשלום) is located in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem, situated bet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boris Schatz: Encyclopedia - Boris Schatz
Boris Schatz (1867-1932) was a Jewish artist and sculptor who founded the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. Schatz was born in Kaunas, Lithua...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia - Jerusalem
Jerusalem (31°46′N 35°14′E; Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ▶ (help·info); Yerushalayim; Arabic: القُدس ▶ (help·info...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chronology Of Jesus: Encyclopedia - Chronology Of Jesus
The chronology of Jesus depicts the traditional chronology established for the events of the life of Jesus by the four canonical gospels ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Church Of All Nations: Encyclopedia - Church Of All Nations
The Church of All Nations, also known as the Church of the Agony or the Basilica of the Agony, is located on Mount of Olives in Jerusalem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Messiah: Encyclopedia - Messiah
In Judaism, the Messiah (מָשִׁיחַ "anointed one", Standard Hebrew Mašíaḥ, Tiberian Hebrew Māšîªḥ Arabic المسيح;) ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gethsemane: Encyclopedia - Gethsemane
Gethsemane (also spelled Gethsemani) was the garden where, according to the Bible and Christian traditions, Jesus prayed the night before...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Axis Mundi: Encyclopedia - Axis Mundi
The axis mundi (world axis), in religion or mythology, is the center of the world and/or the connection between heaven and earth. It is c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Immanuel Jakobovits: Encyclopedia Ii - Immanuel Jakobovits - Biography
Jakobovits was born in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad), where his father Julius was a community rabbi. The family moved to Be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Patriarch Of Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Patriarch Of Jerusalem - List Of Latin Patriarchs Of Jerusalem
(Jerusalem lost in 1187; seat of the Patriarch moved to Acre) (Vacant 1191-1194) Aymar the Monk (1194-1202) Soffred (1202-1204) Albert A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menachem Begin: Encyclopedia Ii - Menachem Begin - In British Palestine
Menachem Begin - Forcing the British out of Palestine. Begin quickly made a name for himself as a fierce critic of mainstream Zionist g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Cemeteries: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Cemeteries - Canada
Province of New Brunswick: Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John - final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samue...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Legio X Fretensis: Encyclopedia Ii - Legio X Fretensis - History
In 36 BC the Tenth legion fought under Octavian against Sextus Pompeius in the battle of Naulochus, where it earned its cognomen Fretensi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uzziah Of Judah: Encyclopedia Ii - Uzziah Of Judah - Biblical Tradition
His long reign of about fifty-two years was "the most prosperous excepting that of Jehoshaphat since the time of Solomon." He was a vigor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Else Lasker-schüler: Encyclopedia Ii - Else Lasker-schüler - Biography
Else Schüler was born on February 11, 1869 in Elberfeld (now a district of Wuppertal. Her mother, Jeannette Schüler (born Kissing) beca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ain Karim: Encyclopedia Ii - Ain Karim - History
Ain Karim - Early history. A spring that provides water to the village of Ain Karim stimulated settlement there from an early time. Pot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aliyah: Encyclopedia Ii - Aliyah - Aliyot
Aliyah - First Aliyah 1882-1903. Between 1882 and 1903, approximately 35,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, then a province of the Ottom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siege Of Jerusalem 1099: Encyclopedia Ii - Siege Of Jerusalem 1099 - The Siege Of Jerusalem
The siege of Arqa lasted until May 13 when the crusaders left, having captured nothing. The Fatimids had attempted to make peace, on the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siege Of Jerusalem 1187: Encyclopedia Ii - Siege Of Jerusalem 1187 - The Siege
Negotiations were carried out between Saladin and Balian, through the mediation of the Yusuf Batit, one of the Eastern Orthodox clergy, w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dresden Frauenkirche: Encyclopedia Ii - Dresden Frauenkirche - Reconstruction
Using original plans used by builder Georg Bähr in the 1720s, reconstruction finally began in January 1993 under the direction of church...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Cemeteries: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Cemeteries - Canada
Province of New Brunswick: Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John - final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samue...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tower Of Siloam: Encyclopedia Ii - Tower Of Siloam - The Fall Of The Tower And Its Significance
The Tower of Siloam in the Gospel of Luke records a discourse of Jesus which addresses the apparent fact that disaster falls upon the jus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Significance Of Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Significance Of Jerusalem - Jerusalem Jews And Judaism
Religious significance of Jerusalem - Jerusalem in Torah and Tanakh. Jerusalem has long been embedded into the religious consciousness ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Maxwell: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Maxwell - Business Activities
Maxwell - like many successful publishers - sought to buy a daily newspaper, hoping to exercise political influence through the media. In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Status As Israel's Capital
All the branches of Israeli government (Presidential, Legislative, Judicial, and Administrative) are seated in Jerusalem. The Knesset bui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siege Of Jerusalem 70: Encyclopedia Ii - Siege Of Jerusalem 70 - Destruction Of Jerusalem
Sulpicius Severus (363–420), referring in his Chronica to Tacitus' (56 BCE–120) earlier account, claimed that Titus favored destroyin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Status As Israel's Capital
In 1980, the Israeli Knesset passed the Basic Law: Jerusalem — Capital of Israel to claim Jerusalem as Israel's "eternal and indivisibl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The Armenian People And Their Establishment In Jerusalem: 95 Bc–640 Ad
The Armenians are an ancient people who have inhabited parts of Turkey, Iran and the Caucasus for more than three thousand years. The fir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chronology Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Chronology Of Jesus - Birth
Chronology of Jesus - Year of birth. Our only sources of information on Jesus' birth are the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Matthew descr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Messiah: Encyclopedia Ii - Messiah - Other Historically Significant Jewish Messiah Claimants
Messiah - Josephus's report of civil unrest in the first century. It had been thought that Josephus asserts that Jesus was indeed the t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aliyah: Encyclopedia Ii - Aliyah - Aliyot
Aliyah - First Aliyah 1882-1903. Between 1882 and 1903, approximately 35,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, then a province of the Ottom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The Crusader Periods 1099–1187, 1229–1244
In 1009 the Fatamid ruler Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah demolished the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, an act that would help light the spark of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Transportation
Jerusalem - Roads. Begin Boulevard is West Jerusalem's inner city expressway. It goes North to South from Atarot to Malcha. Other major...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Jerusalem Today
Jerusalem - Mayors and government. See also: List of mayors of Jerusalem The current mayor of Jerusalem is Uri Lupolianski, member of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Cemeteries: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Cemeteries - People's Republic Of China
List of cemeteries - Hong Kong. Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum - earliest funeral architecture in Hong Kong Gallant Garden is the cemete...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dresden Frauenkirche: Encyclopedia Ii - Dresden Frauenkirche - Destruction
On 13 February 1945, Anglo-American allied forces began the bombing of Dresden. The church impressively survived two days and nights of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dresden Frauenkirche: Encyclopedia Ii - Dresden Frauenkirche - History
The Frauenkirche was built as a Lutheran (Protestant) cathedral, even though Saxony's elector, Frederick August I (1670-1733), was Cathol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Tourism
Jerusalem - Museums. The Israel Museum The Rockefeller Museum The Ticho House The Tower of David Museum Yad Vashem The Babylonian Jewr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Geography And Demography
Jerusalem - Geography. Jerusalem is situated in 31°46′45″N, 35°13′25″E, upon the southern spur of a plateau the eastern side ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - 1260–1517—the Mamluk Period
The coming of the Slave Army of the Mamluks in 1260, replacing the short lived late Muslim Ayyubid rulers (1244–1260) had little effect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Maxwell: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Maxwell - Early Life
Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvik Hoch in the small town of Slatinské Dôly, Slovakia, (now Solotvino, Ukraine) into a poor Jewish fam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Maxwell: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Maxwell - Death
On November 5, 1991, at the age of 68, Maxwell is presumed to have fallen overboard from his luxury yacht, Lady Ghislane, which was cruis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Name
See also names of Jerusalem. The origin of the name of the city is uncertain. It is possible to understand the name (Hebrew Yerushalayim)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - History
According to one Jewish tradition, Jerusalem was founded by Shem and Eber, ancestors of Abraham. It has played an important historical ro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dresden Frauenkirche: Encyclopedia Ii - Dresden Frauenkirche - Promoting Reconstruction And Funding
There had already been intentions to rebuild the church during the last months of World War II. However, due to political circumstances i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siege Of Jerusalem 1099: Encyclopedia Ii - Siege Of Jerusalem 1099 - Aftermath
Following the massacre, Godfrey of Bouillon was made Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri (Protector of the Holy Sepulchre) on July 22, refusing to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - Struggles Over The Holy Sites
The Struggle over the Holy sites had little effect on the buildings themselves, save the fact that all the churches ended up agreeing in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siege Of Jerusalem 1187: Encyclopedia Ii - Siege Of Jerusalem 1187 - Situation In Jerusalem
In Tyre, Balian of Ibelin, lord of Ramla and Nablus and the highest ranking noble to escape the defeat at Hattin, had asked Saladin for s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siege Of Jerusalem 70: Encyclopedia Ii - Siege Of Jerusalem 70 - Christian Implications In Prophecy
The events of 66-73 come after the last canon of the Christian Bible, but many Christians believe that this event was the fulfillment of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The British Mandate Period—1917–1948
The British authorities, with their spit-shined boots and years of colonial experience were quick to embrace the Status Quo, despite Balf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siege Of Jerusalem 1187: Encyclopedia Ii - Siege Of Jerusalem 1187 - Aftermath
Some of the refugees went first to Tripoli, where they were denied entrance and were robbed of their possessions which they had taken wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siege Of Jerusalem 1099: Encyclopedia Ii - Siege Of Jerusalem 1099 - The Siege Of Arqa
At the end of December or early in January, Robert of Normandy and Bohemund's nephew Tancred agreed to become vassals of Raymond, who was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menachem Begin: Encyclopedia Ii - Menachem Begin - Prime Minister Of Israel
Menachem Begin - 1977: Negotiating a majority for the Knesset. (Note: Israel has a system of proportional representation, meaning that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Patriarch Of Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Patriarch Of Jerusalem - Crusader Patriarchate
In 1099 Jerusalem was captured by Crusaders, inaugurating the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which endured almost 200 years. A Roman Catholic hier...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The Ottoman Period 1517–1917
Under the Ottomans Jerusalem would become a cosmopolitan city where religious tolerance to some degree functioned well and a corrupt but ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siege Of Jerusalem 70: Encyclopedia Ii - Siege Of Jerusalem 70 - Christian Implications In Prophecy
The events of 66-73 come after the last canon of the Christian Bible, but many Christians believe that this event was the fulfillment of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Immanuel Jakobovits: Encyclopedia Ii - Immanuel Jakobovits - Ideas And Philosophy
Jakobovits was a firm adherent of the "German-Jewish" Torah im Derech Eretz philosophy, having a broad knowledge of religious subjects as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aliyah: Encyclopedia Ii - Aliyah - Recent Trends
Since the mid 1990s, there has been a steady stream of South African Jews, American Jews, and French Jews who have either made aliyah, or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Significance Of Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Significance Of Jerusalem - Jerusalem In Islam
While the word 'Jerusalem' is not found anywhere in the Qur'an, many Muslims traditionally regard Jerusalem as having a special religious...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Significance Of Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Significance Of Jerusalem - Jerusalem In Christianity
For Christians, Jerusalem's place in the life of Jesus gives it great importance, in addition to its place in the Old Testament, the Hebr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chronology Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Chronology Of Jesus - Death
Chronology of Jesus - Year of death. The understanding of the Gospels is difficult to reconcile with the tradition that holds the Last ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Tourism
Jerusalem - Museums. The Israel Museum The Rockefeller Museum. The Ticho House. The Tower of David Museum Yad Vashem The Babylonian Je...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menachem Begin: Encyclopedia Ii - Menachem Begin - Quotes
Menachem Begin, the day after the UN vote on the 1947 UN Partition Plan: The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recogni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chronology Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Chronology Of Jesus - Biblical Timeline
c. 6 BC - Suggested birth (Earliest) : Bethlehem c. 5 BC - Visit by shepherds : Bethlehem Presentation at the Temple : ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menachem Begin: Encyclopedia Ii - Menachem Begin - Contested Legacy
The importance of Menachem Begin in Israel's national identity cannot be contested since in 2005 a poll conducted showed him gaining the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chronology Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Chronology Of Jesus - Introduction
The chronology of Jesus is heavily contested and some state that it would be impossible to ascertain, even approximately. The four canoni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Transportation
Jerusalem - Roads. Begin Boulevard is West Jerusalem's inner city expressway. It goes North to South from Atarot to Malcha. Other major...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Jerusalem Today
Jerusalem - Mayors and government. See the List of mayors of Jerusalem The current mayor of Jerusalem is Uri Lupolianski, member of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Name
See also names of Jerusalem. The origin of the name of the city is uncertain. It is possible to understand the name (Hebrew Yerushalayim)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem - Geography And Demography
Jerusalem - Geography. Jerusalem is situated in 31°46′45″N, 35°13′25″E, upon the southern spur of a plateau the eastern side ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menachem Begin: Encyclopedia Ii - Menachem Begin - Final Years In Seclusion: Dies In 1992
Begin would rarely leave his apartment, and then usually to visit his wife's grave-site to say the traditional Kaddish prayer for the dep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menachem Begin: Encyclopedia Ii - Menachem Begin - Prime Minister Of Israel
Menachem Begin - 1977: Negotiating a majority for the Knesset. (Note: Israel has a system of proportional representation, meaning that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Messiah: Encyclopedia Ii - Messiah - In The Hebrew Bible
The concept of the messiah is prominent in many books in the Hebrew Bible. In the Hebrew Bible, Israelite priests, prophets, and kings we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tower Of Siloam: Encyclopedia Ii - Tower Of Siloam - Siloam As A Location
The place referred to by the word "Siloam" is now the Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem called Silwan, formerly Kefr Silwan, on the eas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Messiah: Encyclopedia Ii - Messiah - In The New Testament
Christianity emerged from Judaism in the first century of the Common Era. The first Christians were Jews. Within the Jewish tradition the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Messiah: Encyclopedia Ii - Messiah - In Islam
In the Qur'an, the scripture of Islam, Isa (Jesus) is described as a Prophet of God as well as "The messiah". The belief is that he was r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Significance Of Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Significance Of Jerusalem - Jerusalem In The Tanakh And Old Testament
Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Torah but is mentioned in later parts on the Tanakh, and Old Testament, a text sacred to both Judaism a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Messiah: Encyclopedia Ii - Messiah - Other Messiahs
In Stregheria, Jesus Christ is believed to have been a sort of "evil messiah" or false messiah, while Aradia de Toscano is seen as the tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The Crusader Periods 1099–1187 1229–1244
In 1009 the Fatamid ruler Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah demolished the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, an act that would help light the spark of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aliyah: Encyclopedia Ii - Aliyah - Recent Trends
Since the mid 1990s, there has been a steady stream of South African Jews, American Jews, and French Jews who have either made aliyah, or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The First Muslim Period 638–1099
The Persian conquest and sacking of Jerusalem in 614 and the subsequent Islamic conquest in 638 found the Armenians under siege from thei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menachem Begin: Encyclopedia Ii - Menachem Begin - Enters Israeli Politics
In 1948 Begin founded the right-wing political party Herut ("Freedom"), which eventually became the much-larger Likud party. This was a m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menachem Begin: Encyclopedia Ii - Menachem Begin - Early Life
Begin was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Brest-Litovsk ("Brisk"), a town famous for Talmudical scholars such as Rabbi Chaim Solove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Cemeteries: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Cemeteries - People's Republic Of China
List of cemeteries - Hong Kong. Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum - earliest funeral architecture in Hong Kong Gallant Garden is the cemete...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Quarter: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Quarter - The 1948 War And Jordanian Rule 1948–1967
In 1948 the British were set to leave Palestine, the U.N agreed to partition Palestine and Israel declared her independence. Under the U....   » Read the article