CHAP. XLV. Emmaus. Kiriath-Iearim. (Book 45)
FROM a 1.1 Beth-horon to Emmaus it was hilly. b 1.2 It was sixty furlongs distant from Hierusalem. c 1.3 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. To eight hundred only dismissed the Army (Vespasian) gave a place, called Ammaus, for them to inhabit: it is sixty furlongs distant from Jerusalem.
I enquire, whether this word hath the same Etymology with Emmaus near Tyberias which from the Warm baths was called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Chammath. The Jews certainly do write this otherwise; namely either 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as the Jerusalem Talmudists in the place above cited, or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as the Mishnah.
d 1.4 The family, say they, of Beth-Pegarim, and Beth Zipperia was 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 out of Em∣maus. The Gloss is this, Emmaus was the name of a place, whose inhabitants were Israelite Gentlemen, and the Priests married their daughters.
Josephus mentioning some Noble-men, slain by Simeon the Tyrant, numbers one Ari∣steus, who was e 1.5 a Scribe of the Councel, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and by extraction from Am∣maus. By the same Author is mentioned also f 1.6 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Ananus of Am∣maus, one of the seditious of Jerusalem; who nevertheless at last fled over to Cesar.
Kiriath-Jearim was before time called Baale, 2 Sam. VI. 2. or Baalath, 1 Chron. XIII. 6. Concerning it the Jerusalem Writers speak thus; g 1.7 We find, that they intercalated the year in Baalath. But Baalath was sometimes assigned to Judah, and sometimes to Dan. Eltekah, and Gibbethon, and Baaleth; behold these are of Judah. (Here is a mistake of the Tran∣scribers, for it should be written, Of Dan, Jos. XIX. 44. Baalah, and Jiim, and Azem, behold these are of Dan. (It should be written, Of Judah, Jos. XV. 29.) namely, the houses were of Judah, the fields of Dan.