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EXCAVATIONS NEAR JACOB’S WELL Mrs. Ghosn-el-Howie Shweir, Mount Lebanon, Syria
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Jerusalem. Other portions of the city wall have been laid bare and a large section of the city uncovered. This consists of many chambers or dwell ings in close contiguity, compactly built as was the custom in ancient times for safety and defense. On my way through Central Pales tine’, northward, I stopped at Balater on May third to see the excavations. Unfortunately I.was too late to receive information about them at first hand, as operations had ceased three days before and the professors in charge were away and not expected to resume work for six weeks. However I had the satisfaction of seeing the city walls and of walking through the Canaanite city of Shechem (the Hivite prince of the country, Gen. 34:2) and of observ ing its position at the base o f ETbal, facing the large fertile plain of Muk- neh and at the entrance of the impor tant pass between the mountains of Ebal and Gerizim. Very near to this place is the “ par cel of a field” where Jacob spread his tent, and which he bought (Gen. 33: 19), which also he gave to his son Joseph, whose tomb, converted now into a Mohammedan shrine, is only a few paces from Jacob’s Well. (Josh. 24:32; John 4 :6 ). This interesting spot, so near to Balater, which is a corruption of “ balut” (oak), doubtless marks the place where Abraham “ builded an altar” (Gen. 12:7) and, as was the custom from very early days, he prob ably planted an oak or acorn (balnt) by this first Hebrew sanctuary in the land that the Lord had promised to give .unto his seed. This oak grew and became famous in the neighborhood and was probably the same under which Jacob, 189 years later, buried the strange gods that his household had brought with them from Mesopo tamia. The excavations at Balater recall all these memories and carry us back to the midst of patriarchal history. They
IHE excavations at Balater, two kilometers from Nablus, promise to be of surpassing interest and of prime impor tance. They were interrupted by the war, but were resumed .in the spring of 1926 by Professor Dr. Ernst Sellin of Berlin, assisted by Dr. Preshnier, Professor at the German University at Prague; Prof. Dr. Bahl of Groning- ham, Holland, and Architect Johannes of Berlin.
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