The Jews' Cemetery, In The Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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The Jews' Cemetery, In The Valley of Jehoshaphat.

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Photograph

George Wilson Bridges

Maker
English, 1788–1863

The Jews' Cemetery, In The Valley of Jehoshaphat.

From the album "Selections from Seventeen-Hundred Genuine Photographs Taken Around The Shores Of The Mediterranean Between The Years 1846-52. With, Or Without, Notes, Historical, And Descriptive. By a Wayworn Wanderer."


ca. 1852
Salted paper print
16.7 x 21.2 cm.
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Inscriptions caption sheet-(printed) "The Jews' Cemetery, In The Valley Of
Jehoshaphat." "'Let the Heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley
of Jehoshaphat, for there will I sit to judge all the Heathen round
about.' 'Multitudes - multitudes, in the valley of Decision.'"
"'They shall bury them in ...'" "And here sleep millions of the Sons
of Israel! For it is commonly believed amongst the Jews that those who
die not in the Holy Land shall, at the time of the Resurrection, have
great trouble getting there. Therefore, they say, Jacob ..."
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