Monday, July 05, 2004

"BLESSED ARE THE CHEESEMAKERS." I just noticed that Josephus tells us that they had their own valley in the vicinity of Jerusalem, near the recently rediscovered Pool of Siloam:
The Valley of the Cheesemakers, as the ravine was called, which, as we said, divides the hill of the upper city from that of the lower, extends down to Siloam; for so we called that fountain of sweet and abundant water.
The reference is Jewish War 5.4.1 [= 5 �140] in Thackeray's LCL translation (but the link leads to Whiston's translation, which reads "Cheesemongers").

Probably this post indicates that I'm working too hard.

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