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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 836 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORIAH , an obscure See also:

place-name of See also:ancient See also:Palestine with apparently two distinct connotations. (1) A See also:land entirely unknown, on a See also:mountain in which See also:Abraham offered See also:Isaac (Gen. xxii. 2). The See also:text is probably corrupt: some have suggested " land of the See also:Amorites," others " land of See also:Midian." The See also:etymology of the word is equally obscure. Traditionally, of course, " the land of Moriah " is identified with the site of the See also:Temple at See also:Jerusalem,' except by the See also:Samaritans and a few western scholars (such as See also:Dean See also:Stanley) who accept their belief that the mountain was See also:Gerizim. (2) The upper See also:part of the See also:hill of Ophel, the threshing See also:floor of Araunah, upon which See also:Solomon erected the Temple, is once called See also:Mount Moriah (2 Chron. iii. 1). Whether this name be derived from the corruption in See also:Genesis or not cannot be definitely decided; it very likely is. The testimony of See also:Josephus, who often names the temple hill " Moriah," is of course not See also:original, and of no See also:weight. (R. A. S.

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