Ladder of Tyre

Coordinates: 33°5′34.21″N 35°6′15.869″E / 33.0928361°N 35.10440806°E / 33.0928361; 35.10440806
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Ladder of Tyre
Cape Blanco, or Ras-el-Abiad, seen from Mansouri beach in 2019.
Highest point
Coordinates33°5′34.21″N 35°6′15.869″E / 33.0928361°N 35.10440806°E / 33.0928361; 35.10440806
Geography
Ladder of Tyre is located in Lebanon
Ladder of Tyre
Ladder of Tyre

Ladder of Tyre (

First Book of Maccabees (11:59), and in the writings of Josephus.[3]

The Ladder of Tyre, shown in Aaron Arrowmsmith's 1815 map A Sketch of the Countries between Jerusalem and Aleppo

According to the Babylonian Talmud, the waters of the region were formerly known for the

marine mollusk (Murex), harvested for its blue-dye.[4][5] The 1st-century historian Josephus puts 100 stadia (c. 11½ mi.; 18½ km.) from the north of Acre to the highest point (massif) in the promontory known as the Ladder of Tyre.[6] This high place is now associated with Rosh HaNikra grottoes (Scala Tyriorum), and which marked the southern pass into Phoenicia proper, and formed the boundary between that country and Palestine.[7][8][9]
According to Josephus, a place nearby was also known for its fine, crystalline sand used in glass making.

Adolf Neubauer and Henry Baker Tristram thought that the Ladder of Tyre was to be identified with Cape Blanco (Ras el-Abyad), about 9.6 kilometres (6.0 mi) north of Rās en-Nakūrah and belonging to the same mountain range.[10][11] According to historical geographer Joseph Schwarz, where the Mount Amana range terminates at the rock cliffs of Rās en-Nakūrah, "on this rock is a narrow ascent, shaped somewhat like steps, by which its summit can be reached; hence it is called in the Talmud the Ladder of Tyre."[12] Claude Reignier Conder was of the same opinion, that the promontory of Nakūrah was the same as the ancient Ladder of Tyre.[13] Historical geographer, Isaac Goldhor, places the Ladder of Tyre at a distance of 3 biblical miles from Achziv.[14]

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    1836
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    1881
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References

  1. Shabbat 26a; Betza
    25b
  2. Abod. Zar.
    1:9
  3. ^ Rodgers, Zuleika; et al. (2009), p. 194
  4. marine mollusk from the Ladder of Tyre to Haifa
    ."
  5. ^ Jensen (1963), p. 106; Cf. Safrai, et al. (1976), p. 676
  6. De Bello Judaico (The Jewish War) 2.10.2
  7. ^ Kitto (1865), p. 769
  8. Conder, C.R. (1881), pp. 191–192
  9. ^ Guérin, V. (1880), pp. 167–168
  10. ^ Neubauer, A. (1868), p. 39
  11. ^ Tristram, H.B. (1865), p. 61
  12. ^ Schwarz, Joseph (1969), p. 55
  13. ^ Conder (1878), p. 270
  14. ^ Goldhor (1913), p. 86

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