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Jacob's Well, [a] also known as Jacob's Fountain or the Well of Sychar, is a Christian holy site located in Balata village, a suburb of the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The well, currently situated inside an Eastern Orthodox church and monastery, has been associated in religious tradition with the biblical patriarch ...
Bethlehem (בֵית לֶחֶם Beit Lehem, Literally: "House of the bread'") was a town in the hill country of Judah and the birthplace of Jesus (according to Mark and Luke) and David, as well as the place of death of Rachel. Bethlehem, Arkansas; Bethlehem, Connecticut; Bethlehem, Georgia; Bethlehem, New Hampshire; Bethlehem Township, New Jersey
Jacob's Well and Joseph's Tomb are both identified, and Nablus is stated as being the location of Biblical Shechem, in contrast to the modern identification with Tell Balata. Balata is a village on an ancient site, and it has ancient cisterns and canals. [14] In 1896, a Samaritan sarcophagus was found at the house of a local fellah. [15]
The Judea and Samaria Area (Hebrew: אֵזוֹר יְהוּדָה וְשׁוֹמְרוֹן, romanized: Ezor Yehuda VeShomron; [a] Arabic: يهودا والسامرة, romanized: Yahūda wa-s-Sāmara) is an administrative division used by the State of Israel to refer to the entire West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967, but excludes East Jerusalem (see Jerusalem Law).
Map of Samaria by J.G. Bartholomew in 1894 book by George Adam Smith. According to the Hebrew Bible, the Hebrew name "Shomron" (Hebrew: שֹׁומְרוֹן) is derived from the individual (or clan) Shemer (Hebrew: שֶׁמֶר), from whom King Omri (ruled 880s–870s BCE) purchased the hill on which he built his new capital city of Shomron ...
In the New Testament accounts, the principal locations for the ministry of Jesus were Galilee and Judea, with activities also taking place in surrounding areas such as Perea and Samaria. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The gospel narrative of the ministry of Jesus is traditionally separated into sections that have a geographical nature.
Jacob's Well, or the Well of Sychar, a well mentioned in the New Testament and located in the West Bank; Jacob's Well, Bristol, an early mediaeval structure in England that is thought to be a Jewish ritual bath; Jacobs Well, York, a historic building in York, in England
Jacob's Well is a 15th-century collection of 95 sermons in Middle English. The sermons were delivered on consecutive days "in some kind of homiletic marathon" and the written form reflects the spoken word, with remarks like "the other day I told you".