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Jordan River Reference library
A. M. Mannion
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
The Jordan River rises in the southern and western Anti-Lebanon Mountains. It originates as the Bareighit and Hasbani rivers of Lebanon and the Leddan and Banias rivers of Syria. All are ...
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A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.)
The river which runs from north of the Sea of *Galilee to the *Dead Sea is central to
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World Encyclopedia
River in the Middle East, rising in the Anti-Lebanon mountains at the confluence of the Hasbani, Dan, and Baniyas rivers.
JORDAN RIVER Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)
(Heb. Yarden; from the root yarad [descend]), the largest river in Erets Yisra’el. From the foothills of Mount Hermon, the river winds its way along the Great Rift Valley through the Sea ...
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The Oxford Companion to the Bible
(Map 1:Y2–5). The major river in ancient Palestine, linking the two major inland lakes of Kinneret (the Sea
Jordan River Reference library
The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible
The major river in ancient Palestine, linking the two major inland lakes of Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) and
Jordan Reference library
Gary Vikan and Anthony Cutler
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(᾽Ιορδάνης), river in Palestine; more specifically, a locus sanctus on the river about 8 km north of the Dead Sea, where two biblical events were commemorated: the Baptism of Christ ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
a river flowing southward for 320 km (200 miles) from the Anti-Lebanon Mountains through the Sea of Galilee into the Dead Sea. John the Baptist baptized Christ in the River Jordan. It is ...
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