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EMMAUS

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 342 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ECG-EMS
EMMAUS , the name of two places in Palestine.
1. A
village
  mentioned by
Luke
  (xxiv. 13), without any indication of direction, as being 6o stadia (almost 7 m.), or according to some MSS.' 16o stadia, from Jerusalem. Its identification is a matter of mere guesswork: it has been sought at (a) Emmaus-
Nicopolis
  (see 2 below), distant 176 stadia from Jerusalem; (b) Kuryet el-' Enab, distant 66 stadia, on the
carriage
  road to Jaffa; (c) Kulonieh, distant 36 stadia, on the same road; (d) el-Kubeibeh, distant 63 stadia, on the Roman road to Lydda; (e) 'Urtas, distant 6o stadia; and (f) Khurbet el-Khamasa, distant 86 stadia, on the Roman road to Eleutheropolis. Of these, el-Kubeibeh or 'Urtas seems the most probable, though many favour Kulonieh because of its nearness to Bet Mizza, in which name there is similarity with Emmaus, and because of a
reading
  (30 stadia) in Josephus.
2. Emmaus-
Nicopolis
 , now 'Amwas, a town on the maritime plain, and a
place
  of importance during the Maccabaean and Jewish wars. Near it Judas Maccabaeus defeated
Gorgias
  in 164 B.C., and Vespasian established a fortified
camp
  in A.D. 69. It was afterwards rebuilt and named Nicopolis, and became an episcopal see. It was also noted for a healing
spring
 .


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