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Encyclopedia Britannica



CAESAREA PHILIPPI

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 944 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BUN-CAL
CAESAREA PHILIPPI , the name of a town 95 m. N. of Jerusalem, 35 M. S.W. from Damascus, 115o ft. above the sea, on the
south
  base of Hermon, and at an important source of the Jordan. It does not certainly appear in the Old Testament history, though identifications with Baal-Gad and (less certainly) with Laish (Dan) have been proposed. It was certainly a place of
great
  sanctity from very early times, and when foreign
religious influences intruded upon Palestine, the cult of its local numen gave place to the
worship
  of Pan, to whom was dedicated the cave in which the copious
spring
  feeding the Jordan arises. It was long known as Panium or Panias, a name that has survived in the modern Bdnids. When
Herod
  the
Great
  received the territory from
Augustus
 , 20 B.C., he erected here a temple in honour of his patron; but the re-foundation of the town is due to his son, Philip the Tetrarch, who here erected a city which he named Caesarea in honour of Tiberius, adding
Philippi
  to immortalize his own name and to distinguish his city from the similarly-named city founded by his father on the sea-
coast
 . Here Christ gave His charge to Peter (Matt. xvi. 13). Many Greek
inscriptions
  have been found here, some referring to the shrine. Agrippa II. changed the name to Neronias, but this name endured but a short while. Titus here exhibited gladiatorial shows to celebrate the capture of Jerusalem. The Crusaders took the city in 1130, and lost it to the Moslems in 1165. Banias is a poor
village
  inhabited by about 350 Moslems; all round it are gardens of fruit-trees. It is well watered and fertile. There are not many remains of the Roman city above ground. The Crusaders' castle of Subeibeh, one of the finest in Palestine, occupies the summit of a conical hill above the
village
 . (R. A. S. M.)


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