MORIAH  , an obscure See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place-name of See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• PALESTINE

Palestine with apparently two distinct connotations . (1) A See also:

• LAND

land entirely unknown, on a See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain in which See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham offered See also:

• ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac (Gen. xxii . 2) . The See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text is probably corrupt: some have suggested " land of the See also:

• AMORITES

Amorites," others " land of See also:

• MIDIAN (properly Madyan, so Sept.)

Midian." The See also:

• ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology of the word is equally obscure . Traditionally, of course, " the land of Moriah " is identified with the site of the See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

Temple at See also:

• JERUSALEM (Heb. ^S0-r, Yerushalaim, pronounced as a dual)
• JERUSALEM, SYNOD OF (1672)

Jerusalem,' except by the See also:

• SAMARITANS

Samaritans and a few western scholars (such as See also:

• DEAN (Lat. decanus, derived from the Gr. 8eaa, ten)
• DEAN, FOREST OF

Dean See also:

• STANLEY (FAMILY)
• STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN (18x5–1881)
• STANLEY, EDWARD (1779-1849)
• STANLEY, SIR HENRY MORTON (184o-1904)
• STANLEY, SIR WILLIAM (1548-163o)
• STANLEY, THOMAS (1625-1678)

Stanley) who accept their belief that the mountain was See also:

• GERIZIM

Gerizim . (2) The upper See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill of Ophel, the threshing See also:

• FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor of Araunah, upon which See also:

• SOLOMON, ODES OF
• SOLOMON, PSALMS OF

Solomon erected the Temple, is once called See also:

• MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount Moriah (2 Chron. iii . 1) . Whether this name be derived from the corruption in See also:

• GENESIS
• GENESIS (Gr. 'ybeo-es, becoming; the term being used in English as a synonym for origin or process of coming into being)

Genesis or not cannot be definitely decided; it very likely is . The testimony of See also:

• JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS (c. 37-C. 95?)

Josephus, who often names the temple hill " Moriah," is of course not See also:

• ORIGINAL

original, and of no See also:

• WEIGHT

weight . (R . A . S .