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Bethel (settlement)

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A city in ancient Israel mentioned in the Bible

Names

  • Latin: Bethel 1-2
  • Latin: Bothil 3
  • Latin: Luza 4-5
  • Syriac: ܒܝܬܐܝܠ = BYTʾYL 6

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 1, 3-4 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 2, 5 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 6 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Bethel: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 11, VII 20 bis. 35. 48-50, VIII 5, XI 4. [Latin].
  • 2Bethel: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIII 4, XIV 6. [Latin].
  • 3Bothil: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 20. [Latin].
  • 4Luza: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 48 bis. [Latin].
  • 5Luza: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIV 6. [Latin].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 41 [Syriac].
    • Bethel: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 63-65; II, 77 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Bethel” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17703.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: place categorization and categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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