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Mount of Offense (mountain)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/17940

A hill outside Jerusalem, believed to be the site where Solomon built a temple of Moloch, and by some also the site where Jesus appeared to his disciples after his resurrection (in Matthew 28)

Names

  • Latin: mons Galilea 1-2
  • Latin: mons offensionis 3-4

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Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 3 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 1 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 2, 4 1318-13301330c. 13501864

Sources

  • 1mons Galilea: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IV 51. [Latin].
  • 2mons Galilea: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XLVIII 4. [Latin].
  • 3mons offensionis: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VIII 1. 6. [Latin].
  • 4mons offensionis: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XLVIII 1. 3. [Latin].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Margaret Gaida, “Mount of Offense” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17940.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; and matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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