PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED

CHAPTER I (I) OLD TESTAMENT, (II) DEUTERO-CANONICAL BOOKS, (III) NEW TESTAMENT REFERENCES TO GAZA

CHAPTER II SUMMARY OF CHIEF EVENTS RELATING TO GAZA [10] FROM 1503 b.c. to a.d. 1913

CHAPTER III FRANKINCENSE (ARABIAN) AND GAZA

CHAPTER IV NOTES ON GAZA COINS

CHAPTER V THE JEWS AT GAZA [20]

CHAPTER VI THE SAMARITANS

CHAPTER VII SOME EARLY BISHOPS OF (I) GAZA, (II) MAYOUMAS (THE PORT OF GAZA)

CHAPTER VIII THIRTEEN MARTYRS AT GAZA

CHAPTER IX ST. HILARION, THE FIRST HERMIT OF PALESTINE ( c. a.d. 290-371).

CHAPTER X SOZOMEN, CHURCH HISTORIAN ( a.d. 400 c. 450)

CHAPTER XI THE ORTHODOX GREEK CHURCH IN GAZA

CHAPTER XII (1) THE EMPRESS EUDOXIA. (2) THE GAZA CHURCH "EUDOXIANA" [30]

CHAPTER XIII THE CRUSADERS AT GAZA ( a.d. 1100-1291)

CHAPTER XIV THE PASHAS OF GAZA

CHAPTER XV DAGON, THE NATIONAL GOD OF THE PHILISTINES

CHAPTER XVI THE GAZA JUPITER

CHAPTER XVII AN OLD SARCOPHAGUS AT GAZA [41]

CHAPTER XVIII THE GREAT MOSQUE

CHAPTER XIX GAZA THE KEY OF SYRIA

CHAPTER XX GARDENS OLIVE-GROVES BIRDS, ETC.

CHAPTER XXI HISTORY OF THE GAZA MISSION OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (1878-1912)

CHAPTER XXII EL ARiSH AND C.M.S. MISSION

APPENDIX I Public Games at Gaza [50]

APPENDIX II DESTRUCTION OF THE EIGHT HEATHEN TEMPLES OF GAZA ( a.d. 401)

APPENDIX III PASSAGES OF THE HOLY BIBLE, THE DEUTERO-CANONICAL BOOKS, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

GAZA

GAZA
A CITY OF MANY BATTLES
(FROM THE FAMILY OF NOAH TO THE PRESENT DAY)

BY
THEODORE EDWARD DOWLING, D.D.
ARCHDEACON IN SYRIA;
CANON OF ST. GEORGE'S COLLEGIATE CHURCH, JERUSALEM;
COMMISSARY FOR EASTERN CHURCH INTERCOURSE WITHIN THE
ANGLICAN BISHOPRIC IN JERUSALEM

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE TRACT COMMITTEE

LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.; 43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.
Brighton: 129, North Street
New York: E.S. GORHAM
1913