Editing Promised Land (section)

== Boundaries from the Book of Numbers ==
:'''Boundaries of the 'Promised Land' given in the [[Book of Numbers]]''' (chapter 34)
::'''The South border.''' —(v.&nbsp;3) "Then your ''south'' quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your ''south border'' shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward&nbsp;: (v.&nbsp;4) And your border shall turn from the south to the ''ascent of Akrabbim'', and pass on to Zin&nbsp;: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon&nbsp;: (v.&nbsp;5) And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea."
::'''The Western border.''' —(v.&nbsp;6) "And as for the ''western border'', ye shall even have the great sea for a border&nbsp;: this shall be your west border." 
::'''The North border.''' —(v.&nbsp;7) "And this shall be your ''north border''&nbsp;: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor&nbsp;: (v.&nbsp;8) From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath&nbsp;; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad&nbsp;: (v&nbsp;9) And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan&nbsp;: this shall be your north border."
::'''The East border.''' —(v.&nbsp;10) "And ye shall point out your ''east border'' from Hazar-enan to Shepham&nbsp;: (v.&nbsp;11) And the coast shall go down from Shepham to ''Riblah'', on the east side of Ain&nbsp;; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the ''sea of Chinnereth'' eastward&nbsp;: (v.&nbsp;12) And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea&nbsp;: this shall be your land ''with the coasts thereof'' round about."<ref>{{cite book|author=Henry P. Linton|title=Notes on the book of Numbers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6qgCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA169|year=1884|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=6qgCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA170&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2Qhi2j6CO_CXWO_B4yHMMXxtB1ng&ci=73%2C177%2C842%2C953&edge=0 170]}}</ref>
:'''Boundaries of the 'Promised Land' given by [[Jerome]] c.400'''
::You may delineate the Promised Land of [[Moses]] from the Book of Numbers (ch. 34): as bounded on the south by the desert tract called Sina, between the Dead Sea and the city of [[Kadesh (Israel)|Kadesh-barnea]], [which is located with the [[Arabah]] to the east] and continues to the west, as far as the river of Egypt, that discharges into the open sea near the city of [[Arish|Rhinocolara]]; as bounded on the west by the sea along the coasts of Palestine, Phoenicia, Coele-Syria, and Cilicia; as bounded on the north by the circle formed by the [[Taurus Mountains]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Bechard|first=Dean Philip|title=Paul Outside the Walls: A Study of Luke's Socio-geographical Universalism in Acts 14:8-20|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BwoLOauyDcUC&pg=PA203|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Gregorian Biblical BookShop|isbn=978-88-7653-143-9|pages=203–205|quote=In the Second Temple period, when Jewish authors were seeking to establish with greater precision the geographical definition of the Land, it became customary to construe "Mount Hor" of Num 34:7 as a reference to the Amanus range of the Taurus Mountains, which marked the northern limit of the Syrian plain (Bechard 2000, p. 205, note 98.)}}</ref> and Zephyrium and extending to Hamath, called Epiphany-Syria; as bounded on the east by the city of [[Hippos, Israel|Antioch Hippos]] and Lake Kinneret, now called [[Sea of Galilee|Tiberias]], and then the Jordan River which discharges into the salt sea, now called the Dead Sea.<ref>{{cite book|title=Sainte Bible expliquée et commentée, contenant le texte de la Vulgate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hOhWsYkY8iEC&pg=PR41|year=1837|publisher=Bibl. Ecclésiastique|quote=Quod si objeceris terram repromissionis dici, quae in Numerorum volumine continetur (Cap. 34), a meridie maris Salinarum per Sina et Cades-Barne, usque ad torrentem Aegypti, qui juxta Rhinocoruram mari magno influit; et ab occidente ipsum mare, quod Palaestinae, Phoenici, Syriae Coeles, Ciliciaeque pertenditur; ab aquilone Taurum montem et Zephyrium usque Emath, quae appellatur Epiphania Syriae; ad orientem vero per Antiochiam et lacum Cenereth, quae nunc Tiberias appellatur, et Jordanem, qui mari influit Salinarum, quod nunc Mortuum dicitur |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=hOhWsYkY8iEC&pg=PR41&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1psds-cSbj-GaeBF3LBOIFGcp0Jg&ci=108%2C638%2C766%2C222&edge=0 41]}}</ref><ref>Hieronymus (1910). "Epistola CXXIX Ad Dardanum de Terra promissionis (al. 129; scripta circa annum 414ce)". [https://archive.org/details/CSEL56 Epistularum Pars III —Epistulae 121-154], p.&nbsp;171 (The fifty-sixth volume of ''Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum'' also known as the Vienna Corpus: Letters Part 3, Containing letters 121-154 of St. Jerome.) Image of [https://ia600803.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/6/items/CSEL56/CSEL56_jp2.zip&file=CSEL56_jp2/CSEL56_0182.jp2&scale=1&rotate=0 p.&nbsp;171] at Archive.org</ref>

* 1845: [[Salomon Munk]], ''Palestine, Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique," in "L'Univers Pittoresque'':
<blockquote>Under the name ''Palestine'', we comprehend the small country formerly inhabited by the Israelites, and which is today part of Acre and Damascus pachalics. It stretched between 31 and 33° N. latitude and between 32 and 35° degrees E. longitude, an area of about 1300 {{langx|fr|lieues carrées}}. Some zealous writers, to give the land of the Hebrews some political importance, have exaggerated the extent of Palestine; but we have an authority for us that one can not reject. St. Jerome, who had long traveled in this country, said in his letter to Dardanus (ep. 129) that the northern boundary to that of the southern, was a distance of 160 Roman miles, which is about 55 {{langx|fr|lieues}}. He paid homage to the truth despite his fears, as he said himself, of availing the ''Promised Land'' to pagan mockery, "{{lang|la|Pudet dicere latitudinem terrae repromissionis, ne ethnicis occasionem blasphemandi dedisse uideamur}}" (Latin: "I am embarrassed to say the breadth of the promised land, lest we seem to have given the heathen an opportunity of blaspheming").<ref>{{cite book|last=Munk|first=Salomon|author-link=Salomon Munk|title=Palestine: Description géographique, historique et archéologique|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=02EOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA2|year=1845|publisher=F. Didot|language=fr|pages=2–3|quote=Sous le nom de ''Palestine'', nous comprenons le petit pays habité autrefois par les Israélites, et qui aujourd'hui fait partie des pachalics d'Acre et de Damas. Il s'étendait entre le 31 et 33° degré latitude N. et entre le 32 et 35° degré longitude E., sur une superficie d'environ 1300 lieues carrées. Quelques écrivains jaloux de donner au pays des Hébreux une certaine importance politique, ont exagéré l'étendue de la Palestine; mais nous avons pour nous une autorité que l'on ne saurait récuser. Saint Jérôme, qui avait longtemps voyagé dans cette contrée, dit dans sa lettre à Dardanus (ep. 129) que de la limite du nord jusqu'à celle du midi il n'y avait qu'une distance de 160 milles romains, ce qui fait environ 55 lieues. Il rend cet hommage à la vérité bien qu'il craigne, comme il le dit lui-même de livrer par la ''terre promise'' aux sarcasmes païens. (Pudet dicere latitudinem terrae repromissionis, ne ethnicis occasionem blasphemandi dedisse uideamur)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Munk|first1=Salomon|author-link1=Salomon Munk|last2=Levy|first2=Moritz A.|author-link2=Moritz Abraham Levy|title=Palästina: geographische, historische und archäologische Beschreibung dieses Landes und kurze Geschichte seiner hebräischen und jüdischen Bewohner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbRUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1|year=1871|publisher=Leiner|language=de|page=1}}</ref></blockquote>