Jericho
Jericho names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Jericho . See Palestine Jerome of Prague (1370-1416)
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
. See Palestine Jerome of Prague (1370-1416), a Bohemian reformer. He was a native of Prague. After the manner of the time he wandered from university to university, listening to lectures, all, of course, in the Latin language. He visited in this way Oxford, Paris, Cologne, and Heidelberg, as well as the famous institution in his native town. He became associated with John Huss, and adopted his theological views. He was a man of great learning and convincing eloquence, hot-headed and disposed to proceed to extremes. Monks who opposed his teachings he caused to be arrested and thrown into prison. He burned the pope's bull publicly, and in many ways incurred unnecessary enmity. When Huss was arrested at Constance Jerome hastened to his defense. He was arrested and thrown into prison. Here he lay for over a year and agreed to recant the heresy with which he and his friend Huss were charged. This, however, did not save his life. May 30, 1416, he was, by command of the council, publicly burned at the stake. His ashes were thrown into the Rhine. A large boulder with an appropriate inscription marks the spot where Jerome suffered martyrdom. See Huss ; Bohemia ; Prague
Jericho a city of the Canaanites
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of the Canaanites, in a plain on the W. side of the Jordan, near its mouth. It was destroyed by Joshua, rebuilt in the time of the judges, and formed an independent frontier fortress of Judæa. It was again destroyed by Vespasian, rebuilt under Hadrian, and finally destroyed during the crusades. The site of Jericho has usually been fixed at Rihah, a mean and foul Arab hamlet of some 200 inhabitants. Recent travelers, however, show that the probable location of Jericho was 2 miles W. of Rihah, at the mouth of Wady Kelt, and where the road from Jerusalem debouches into the plain. On the W. and N. of Jericho rise high limestone hills, dreary Quarantana deone of which, the rives its name from the modern tradiof our Lord's tion that it was the scene 40 days' fast and temptation. Jericho under was captured by British forces Gen. Allenby in February, 1918.
Jericho ROSE OF, popular name of Anastatica hierochuntina
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROSE OF, popular name of Anastatica hierochuntina, a genus of plants belonging to the order Brassicaceæ, or crucifers. It is an annual, inhabiting the Egyptian desert. It is so highly hygrometric that when fully developed it contracts its rigid branches so as to constitute a ball. Exposed then to the action of the wind, it is driven hither and thither. If, however, it be brought in contact with water, the ballform vanishes, and the branches again acquire their natural expansion. It is said to have first bloomed on Christmas eve, and continued in flower till Easter; its birth heralding the advent of the Redeemer, and immediately before its departure honoring His resurrection.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921 the site was still a matter of guesswork: Jericho had "usually been fixed at Rihah, a mean and foul Arab hamlet of some 200 inhabitants," with recent travellers proposing a spot two miles west at the mouth of Wady Kelt. Both were partly right — the Old Testament city is the mound of Tell es-Sultan beside the spring north-west of the modern town, while the ruins near Wadi Qelt belong to the Herodian and New Testament city. Excavation has utterly transformed the entry's timescale: Kathleen Kenyon's digs in the 1950s found a stone tower and town wall of the pre-pottery Neolithic, around the eighth millennium BC, making Jericho one of the oldest walled settlements known, and dated the collapse of the famous fortifications centuries before the conventional date for Joshua. Politically the change is just as sharp: Allenby's capture of the town in February 1918 has been followed by Jordanian rule, Israeli occupation from 1967, and transfer to the Palestinian Authority in 1994, the first city handed over under the Oslo accords.
Written for this edition, 2026.