Chapter III: Section II: (a.d. 41-A.d. 1913)

III FRANKINCENSE (ARABIAN) AND GAZA 39
IV NOTES ON GAZA COINS 41
V THE JEWS AT GAZA 46
VI THE SAMARITANS 48
VII SOME EARLY BISHOPS 50
(1) OF GAZA.
(2) OF MAYOUMAS.
VIII THIRTEEN MARTYRS AT GAZA 56
IX ST. HILARION 58
X SOZOMEN--CHURCH HISTORIAN 61
XI THE ORTHODOX GREEK CHURCH IN GAZA 63
XII THE EMPRESS EUDOXIA--THE GAZA CHURCH
"EUDOXIANA" 64
XIII THE CRUSADERS AT GAZA 66
XIV THE PASHAS OF GAZA 70
XV DAGON--THE NATIONAL GOD OF THE PHILISTINES 72
XVI THE GAZA JUPITER 74
XVII AN OLD SARCOPHAGUS AT GAZA 76
XVIII THE GREAT MOSQUE (AL JAMI-AL-KEBIR) 79
XIX GAZA--THE KEY OF SYRIA 82
XX GARDENS--OLIVE GROVES--BIRDS, ETC. 87
XXI HISTORY OF THE C.M.S. GAZA MISSION, 1878-1912 90
XXII EL ARÎSH AND C.M.S. MISSION 93

APPENDICES

I PUBLIC GAMES AT GAZA 97
II DESTRUCTION OF THE EIGHT HEATHEN TEMPLES
OF GAZA, A.D. 401 110
III BIBLICAL REFERENCES 115
INDEX 117

ILLUSTRATIONS

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FROM GAZA TO ASCALON[3] _Frontispiece_
THE MUSLIM MOSQUE--ONCE THE CRUSADER'S CHURCH 79
NATIVES WITHIN THE C.M.S. COMPOUND 90

FOOTNOTE:

[3] Reduced and reproduced by permission of The Palestine Exploration Fund.

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED

_A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities_, _etc._, 1891. ALFORD'S _Greek Testament_, vol. ii, 1861. _Apocrypha_, revised version of, 1895.

BÆDEKER'S _Palestine and Syria_, 1906. BARING-GOULD, REV. S., _Lives of the Saints_. BELL'S _The Saints of Christian Art_ ("The Great Hermits"), 1902. _Bible Educator, The_, vols. i and iii (no date). _Bible, Holy, The._ BRIGHT'S _The Age of the Fathers_, 2 vols., 1903.

_Cambridge Companion to the Bible_, 1905. CONDER'S _Syrian Stone Lore_, 1886. CONDER'S _Tent Work in Palestine_, vol. ii, 1878.

_Dictionary of Christian Antiquities_, vol. i, 1875.

_Encyclopædia Britannica_, vol. x (ninth edition), 1879. EUSEBIUS' _Ecclesiastical History_, 1851.

FLINDERS PETRIE'S _Egypt and Israel_, 1911.

GEIKIE'S _The Holy Land and the Bible_, vol. i, 1887. GUY LE STRANGE'S _Palestine under the Muslims_, 1890.

Handbooks of the C.M.S. Missions. _The Palestine Mission_, 1910. HASTINGS' _Dictionary of the Bible_, 1904. HEAD'S _Historia Numorum_, 1887. HILL'S _Life of Porphyry_, 1913.

_Josephus_ (Whiston's), edited by Dr. Margoliouth, 1906. _Jottings and Snapshots from Gaza, S. Palestine_, Nos. 1-3, 1908-1910.

MADDEN'S _Coins of the Jews_, 1881. MEISTERMANN'S _Fr. Barnabas' New Guide to the Holy Land_, 1907. METAXAKIS on the Madaba Map, in _Nea Sion_, 1907. MEYER'S _History of the City of Gaza_, 1907. MURRAY'S _Dictionary of Christian Biography_, 1911. MURRAY'S _Handbook of Syria and Palestine_, Part I, 1868.

NEALE'S _History of the Holy Eastern Church_, Part I, 1850. NEALE'S _History of the Holy Eastern Church_, "The Patriarchate of Alexandria," vol. i, 1847. NEALE'S _Lent Legends_, 1905. NEALE'S _The Patriarchate of Antioch_, 1883.

OLIPHANT'S (LAURENCE) _Haifa_, or _Life in Modern Palestine_, 1887.

PORTER'S _The History of Beirût_, 1912. PUSEY'S _Commentary on the Minor Prophets_, 1879.

_Quarterly Statement_ of the Palestine Exploration Fund--various.

ROBERTSON'S _History of the Christian Church_, vol. i, 1854. ROBERTSON'S _Biblical Researches in Palestine_, vol. ii, 1856.

SAYCE'S _Patriarchal Palestine_, 1912. SCHÜRER'S _History of the Jewish People in the time of Christ_, vols. i, ii, 1898. SMITH'S (GEORGE ADAM) _The Historical Geography of the Holy Land_, 1902. STEVENSON'S _The Crusaders in the East_, 1907.

WORSDWORTH'S _Greek Testament_, "The Acts of the Apostles," 1860. WORDSWORTH'S _The Ministry of Grace_, 1901.

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