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, on Jerusalem.

[196] See Macalister, _The Excavation of Gezer_, I, 102; II, 378, ff.

[197] See Schumacher, _Tell el-Mutesellim_, 156, ff.

[198] In Gen. 22:9 Abraham, we are told, built the altar. He did not, therefore, intend to use the rock-altar. The analogy of this altar with the other two is not quite complete. It appears to have no cup-marks on its surface.

[199] See Bliss and Macalister, _Excavations in Palestine, 1898-1900_, p. 31, ff.

[200] See Macalister, _The Excavation of Gezer_, I, 51, 105-107; II, 381-404.

[201] See Part II, p. 364.

[202] See C. H. Toy, _Introduction to the History of Religions_, Boston, 1913, §§ 250, 257.

[203] _Tell Taanek_, p. 68, ff.

[204] See Part II, p. 442.

[205] For descriptions of this high place, see the article by its discoverer, George L. Robinson, in the _Biblical World_, XVII, 6-16; by S. I. Curtis in the _Quarterly Statement_ of the Palestine Exploration Fund, October, 1900, pp. 350-355; Savignac in _Révue biblique_, 1903, 280-284; Libby and Hoskins, _The Jordan Valley and Petra_, New York, 1905, II, 172, ff.; Brünnow and Domaszewski, _Provincia Arabia_, Vol. I, Strassburg, 1904, 239-245; Dalman, _Petra_, Leipzig, 1908, 56-58.

[206] See the writer’s _A Year’s Wandering in Bible Lands_, Philadelphia, 1904, pp. 193, 194.

[207] Those interested in them will find them described in Brünnow and Domaszewski’s _Provincia Arabia_, I, 246, ff., and in Dalman’s _Petra_, 142, 225, 272, etc.

[208] See Macalister, _Excavation of Gezer_, II, 405, ff.

[209] Schumacher, _Tell el-Mutesellim_, 110-124.

[210] Schumacher, _Tell el-Mutesellim_, 105-110.

[211] _Ibid._, 125-130.

[212] See _Harvard Theological Review_, II, 102-113; III, 248-263.

[213] See Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, XV, viii, 5, and _Wars of the Jews_, I, xxi, 2.

[214] See especially Fig. 269.

[215] See