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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 342 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EMMAUS , the name of two places in See also:

Palestine. 1. A See also:village mentioned by See also:Luke (See also:xxiv. 13), without any indication of direction, as being 6o stadia (almost 7 m.), or according to some See also:MSS.' 16o stadia, from See also:Jerusalem. Its See also:identification is a See also:matter of See also:mere guesswork: it has been sought at (a) Emmaus-See also:Nicopolis (see 2 below), distant 176 stadia from Jerusalem; (b) Kuryet el-' Enab, distant 66 stadia, on the See also:carriage road to Jaffa; (c) Kulonieh, distant 36 stadia, on the same road; (d) el-Kubeibeh, distant 63 stadia, on the See also:Roman road to Lydda; (e) 'Urtas, distant 6o stadia; and (f) Khurbet el-Khamasa, distant 86 stadia, on the Roman road to See also:Eleutheropolis. Of these, el-Kubeibeh or 'Urtas seems the most probable, though many favour Kulonieh because of its nearness to See also:Bet Mizza, in which name there is similarity with Emmaus, and because of a See also:reading (30 stadia) in See also:Josephus. 2. Emmaus-Nicopolis, now 'Amwas, a See also:town on the maritime See also:plain, and a See also:place of importance during the Maccabaean and Jewish See also:wars. Near it Judas Maccabaeus defeated See also:Gorgias in 164 B.C., and See also:Vespasian established a fortified See also:camp in A.D. 69. It was afterwards rebuilt and named Nicopolis, and became an episcopal see. It was also noted for a healing See also:spring.

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