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| Keywords: Tiberias from the walls. Safed in the distance. David Roberts. 1855.jpg Tiberias from the walls Safed in the distance en This Sketch in addition to the view of the City gives in the distance crowning a lofty hill the City of Safed The land is peculiarly liable to earthquakes ; Safed was fearfully visited in the middle of the last century 1759 ; but a still heavier visitation befell it in 1837 On the first day of the year a succession of the most violent shocks rent the earth in many places and almost instantly overthrew the chief part of the dwellings The loss of life was dreadful though perhaps too largely calculated at five thousand ; four-fifths of the sufferers were Jews Safed is venerated as one of the four holy cities of Judea; the others being Jerusalem Hebron and Tiberias Its prominent position led to its being fortified at an early period By some authorities it has been supposed to occupy the site of Bethulia and by others that of Kitron a city of Zebulon But nothing is distinctly known of the City before the Crusades when it afforded shelter to Baldwin III after his defeat at El-Huleh in 1157 Safed is however chiefly celebrated for its Rabbinical school one of the most distinguished among the Jews and for many centuries it has been thus regarded; but the period of its scholastic foundation is not certain it was probably long after the conquest by Bibars Its palmy days were however during the sixteenth century when the most eminent of the Rabbins lived and taught there; and at this early period 1578 it had an established printing-office which even as late as 1833 still gave regular employment to a considerable number of persons 2 It has been supposed that Safed was the City set on a Hill to which allusion is made in the Sermon on the Mount 3 and that the Hill itself was the Mount of the Transfiguration But both suppositions are unsustained by evidence http //archive org/details/holylandsyriaidu1to2robe The Holy Land Syria Idumea Arabia Egypt Nubia 1855 1855 Originally from 1842 Creator David Roberts PD-old-auto-1923 1864 Sea of Galilee in art Tiberias in art Louis Haghe Paintings of Palestine by David Roberts | ||||
