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Bible Encyclopedias
Golgotha
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or Locality mentioned in the New Testament as the scene of Jesus' execution (Matthew 27:33 and parallels). The name is an Aramaic emphatic state, and corresponds to the Hebrew 
. In the Greek transliteration of the Gospels the "l" is elided except in one manuscript (Codex Bezæ); "Golgotha" is the proper form. It was outside the city wall (John 19:20), near a tomb, a gate, and a road, and in a prominent position (Mark 15:29,40; John 19:20,41). Two places answer to this description: (1) The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which is identified by tradition with Golgotha; it lay beyond the second wall and was near tombs and a road. A temple of Venus was erected on the site; and from the analogy of the temple of Zeus, which was built on the site of the Second Temple, this seems to imply that it was once a sacred spot. (2) A skull-shaped rock above the grotto of Jeremiah, about which there is a Jewish tradition that it was the place of stoning. The name does not occur in Talmudic literature. See also Adam.
- A. McGrigor, in EncyclopÅdia Britannica, s. Sepulchre, Holy;
- Cheyne and Black, Encyc. Bibl. s.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Golgotha'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/g/golgotha.html. 1901.
