Identifier: surveyofwesternp00warruoft (find matches)
Title: The survey of Western Palestine-Jerusalem
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Warren, Charles, Sir, 1840-1927 Palestine Exploration Fund Conder, C. R. (Claude Reignier), 1848-1910
Subjects: Jerusalem -- Antiquities Jerusalem -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Palestine Exploration Fund
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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still standing in the time ofJerome, and supposed to mark the site of the Jewish Temple. Mr.Fergusson, however, denies that the lapis perhisus, or pierced stone,was the present Sakhrah, and also denies that the Sakhrah purified byOmar was the present Holy Rock. A Moslem transference of tradition,as well as a Christian one, must therefore have occurred if Mr. Fergussonis correct in his contention. The literary evidence has long ago beencanvassed and exhausted ; but it is much to be desired that a competentarchitectural authority should pronounce an opinion, independent andunbiased, on the architectural evidence on which Mr. Fergussons theorymainly rests. It will, however, be clear from these notes that thediscoveries of Colonel Warren, and the surveys of Colonel Sir C. Wilson,have profoundly affected those great questions of Jerusalem topographyconcerning which differences of opinion still exist. C. R. C. /■■ ^ s??--.-,-:/:/. -.--. y::-::y. \NGLE ••■ ;■ • ._ \ i . •H \
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