Gaza

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Author

Dowling, Theodore Edward, 1837-1921

Title

Gaza: A City of Many Battles (from the Family of Noah to the Present Day)

Credits

Produced by Enrico Segre, Moti Ben-Ari and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Gaza

Category

Text

eBook-No.

49256

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49256

Release Date

June 22, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.GAZA A CITY OF MANY BATTLES ( FROM THE FAMILY OF NOAH TO THE PRESENT DAY )
2. 2.PREFACE — FOOTNOTES:
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — FOOTNOTE:
5. 5.AUTHORITIES CONSULTED
6. 6.CHAPTER I (I) OLD TESTAMENT, (II) DEUTERO-CANONICAL BOOKS, (III) NEW TESTAMENT REFERENCES TO GAZA — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER II SUMMARY OF CHIEF EVENTS RELATING TO GAZA [10] FROM 1503 b.c. to a.d. 1913 — Section I (1503 b.c. to 30 b.c. ) [11] — Section II ( a.d. 41-1913) — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER III FRANKINCENSE (ARABIAN) AND GAZA — FOOTNOTE:
9. 9.CHAPTER IV NOTES ON GAZA COINS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER V THE JEWS AT GAZA [20] — FOOTNOTE:
10. 10.CHAPTER VI THE SAMARITANS — CHAPTER VII SOME EARLY BISHOPS OF (I) GAZA, (II) MAYOUMAS (THE PORT OF GAZA) — I.— Bishops of Gaza — II.— Bishops of Mayoumas ( or Constantia ) [24] — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII THIRTEEN MARTYRS AT GAZA — FOOTNOTE:
12. 12.CHAPTER IX ST. HILARION, THE FIRST HERMIT OF PALESTINE ( c. a.d. 290-371). — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER X SOZOMEN, CHURCH HISTORIAN ( a.d. 400— c. 450) — FOOTNOTE:
13. 13.CHAPTER XI THE ORTHODOX GREEK CHURCH IN GAZA — CHAPTER XII (1) THE EMPRESS EUDOXIA.—(2) THE GAZA CHURCH "EUDOXIANA" [30] — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XIII THE CRUSADERS AT GAZA ( a.d. 1100-1291) — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XIV THE PASHAS OF GAZA — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XV DAGON, THE NATIONAL GOD OF THE PHILISTINES — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XVI THE GAZA JUPITER — CHAPTER XVII AN OLD SARCOPHAGUS AT GAZA [41] — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XVIII THE GREAT MOSQUE — FOOTNOTE:
14. 14.CHAPTER XIX GAZA—THE KEY OF SYRIA — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.CHAPTER XX GARDENS—OLIVE-GROVES—BIRDS, ETC. — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.CHAPTER XXI HISTORY OF THE GAZA MISSION OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (1878-1912) — FOOTNOTE: — CHAPTER XXII EL ARÎSH AND C.M.S. MISSION — FOOTNOTE:
17. 17.APPENDIX I Public Games at Gaza [50] — The Circus of Gaza [53] — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.APPENDIX II DESTRUCTION OF THE EIGHT HEATHEN TEMPLES OF GAZA ( a.d. 401) — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.APPENDIX III PASSAGES OF THE HOLY BIBLE, THE DEUTERO-CANONICAL BOOKS, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
20. 20.INDEX
21. 21.Untitled
22. 22.Transcriber's Notes

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