| Title: | Golgotha |
| Original Title: | Golgotha |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 7 (1757), p. 732 |
| Author: | Edme-François Mallet (biography) |
| Translator: | Thomas Rosenzweig [Wheaton College] |
| Subject terms: |
Geography
Theology
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| Citation (MLA): | Mallet, Edme-François. "Golgotha." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Thomas Rosenzweig. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2018. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.570>. Trans. of "Golgotha," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 7. Paris, 1757. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Mallet, Edme-François. "Golgotha." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Thomas Rosenzweig. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.570 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Golgotha," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 7:732 (Paris, 1757). |
Golgotha. A Hebrew word meaning Calvary , the name of the place near Jerusalem where Jesus Christ was crucified. Some ancients believed, though on what basis we do not know, that it was the place where Adam had been buried, and that it was called Calvary because the skull of our first father was there. [1] They believed it appropriate that the new Adam should be crucified in this place so that his blood would run over the bones of the old Adam in order to expiate the latter's crimes. Saint Jerome scorns and rejects this allegory, and thinks, probably with good reason, that this place is called Calvary because it is there that executions took place and that the skulls of those tortured to death remained.
1. Latin calvarius, "skull".