Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. I, 1948 Sacred Scripture Biblical geography

Adarsa

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Also known as: Adas, Adazer, Hirbet 'Adasèh

ADARSA. - Thus the Vulgate, 1 Macc. 7:40, which has Adazer in 1 Macc. 7:45 (Adas in the Greek text and in Flavius Josephus; Dessau [Gk. Δασακού] in 2 Macc. 14:16), calls the village north of Jerusalem, where Judas Maccabeus with 3000 men routed Nicanor (on the 13th of Adar, 161 B.C.); once he was killed, the Jews pursued the Syrians, annihilating them, as far as Gezer, and carried the spoils to Jerusalem (1 Macc. 7:39-49).

It is identified with Hirbet 'Adasèh, which corresponds to the topographical indications offered to us by 1 Macc. (7:45: a day's journey from Gezer) and by Flavius Josephus (Ant. Jud. XII, 10, 5: 30 stadia from Bethoron). All reject the opinion of Eusebius, who identified it with a village near Gophna, which he erroneously placed in the tribe of Judah (Onomasticon, ed. Klostermann, p. 26, 1).

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By Angelo Penna

How we know recovered from an earlier OCR reading

Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 287.

More by Angelo Penna: Adama (Hebrew 'Adamah) · Adonias (Hebrew 'Adonijah[ā], «My Lord is Yahweh») · Adonibezec (Heb. "Lord of Bezek"; dynastic title rather than proper name) · Adonisedec (Hebrew «My Lord is Justice»; Septuagint: Adonibezec) · Agarei or Agarenes (Hebrew *Hagrî'îm*; Septuagint: Ἀγαραῖοι ὁ Ἀγαρηνοί)

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Chicago

Penna, Angelo. “Adarsa.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 287. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/adarsa.

MLA

Penna, Angelo. “Adarsa.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 287. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/adarsa.

BibTeX

@incollection{ec1_adarsa,
  author    = {Penna, Angelo},
  title     = {Adarsa},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {287},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/adarsa}
}

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