- A
caphar was a toll or duty
imposed by the
Turks on the
Christian merchants who
traded their merchandise from
Aleppo to Jerusalem. The term was derived...
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commemorate the victory. Nicanor's
military governance of Judea, the
Battle of
Caphar-salama, and the
Battle of
Adasa are
recorded in the book of 1 Maccabees...
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Kefar Shiḥlayim (Hebrew: כפר שחלים), also Kfar Shiḥlim, Kfar
Shahliim and Kfar Shiḥlaya, a
place name
compounded of the word "Kefar" (village) plus a denominative...
- Kfar Aziz (Hebrew: כפר עזיז) was a
Jewish village from the
period of the Mishnah. It is
identified with
Hurbat al Aziz, in the
southern part of
Yatta in...
- do****entation
suggestions about her
birthplace are:
Naissus (central Balkans),
Caphar or
Edessa (Mesopotamia), Trier. The
bishop and
historian Eusebius of Caesarea...
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which is
mentioned in 1
Maccabees 7:31 as the
location of the
battle of
Caphar-salama. However, both
names remain in use.
Arabic street names were eventually...
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place of Lot, a fact
already mentioned around 400 CE, when it was
known as '
Caphar Barucha'.
Following the
Muslim conquest, its name was
eventually Arabicized...
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Nicanor took his
forces into the field, and
fought the
Maccabees first at
Caphar-salama, and then at the
Battle of
Adasa in late
winter of 161 BCE. Nicanor...
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retreated to the countryside.
Nicanor led a
small group to
fight a
battle near
Caphar-Salama, but
Judas won, and the
government troops retreated back to Jerusalem...
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citing Sozomenus (Rel. Pal., p. 753),
mention the non-biblical site of
Caphar Zachariah (Gr****: Χαφάρ Ζαχαρία)
being in the
region of Eleutheropolis,...
