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3 unusual facts about Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau


Baalath

ba'-a-lath ba'alath; A, Baalon):between Shikkeron (Ekron) and Jabnoel unless, as seems probable, the suggestion of Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (Rev. Crit, 1897, 902) is correct that for har ( = "mount"), we should read nahar ("river").

Bnei Darom

Clermont-Ganneau visited the place in 1873, and gave a very similar description, with the addition: "this must have been the site of some ancient "manzel", or posting-house, on the Arab route from Syria to Egypt.

Temples of Mount Hermon

Hermon was said to have become known as "the mountain of oath" by Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau.



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