Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
CARIATHIARIM (Heb. Qirjāth jā 'ārim). - A city also called Qirjāth ba'al, a recent appellation of ancient Ba'alāh (Ios. 15, 9), a border city between the tribe of Ephraim and that of Giuda. For several years it housed, in the house of Abinadab, the ark of the covenant, when it was restored to the Giudei by the Philistines, who had taken it in the battle near Alek (I Sam. 6, 21; 7, 1 ff.), until David had it transported to Sion
(phot. Anderson) CARIANI, GIOVANNI - Madonna with Child and Donor (1520). Bergamo, Accademia Carrara.(II Sam. 6, 3; I Par. 13, 5 etc.). The prophet Uriah, a contemporary of Jeremiah, was from C. (Ier. 26, 20). The Jews returning from exile repopulated it (Eid. 2, 25; Neh. 7, 29). Eusebius (Onomasticon, ed. E. Klostermann, Leipzig 1904, p. 114, 23-27) identifies it with a locality 9 miles from Jerusalem, towards Lydda, corresponding to present-day Abû Gôš, formerly Qarjat el-'inab, 12 km from Jerusalem along the road to Jaffa.
BIBL.: P. Lauffa, Zur Lage und Geschichte des Ortes Kirjath Yearim, in Zeitschrift des Deutschen Pollutino-Vereins, 38 (1915), pp. 249-302; F.-M. Abel, Découverte d'un tombeau antique à Abou-Ghôch, in Revue biblique, 30 (1921), pp. 97-102.
Angelo Penna
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“CARIATHIARIM (EBR. QIRJĀTH JĀ 'ĀRIM).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), p. 473. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/cariathiarim-ebr-qirjath-ja-arim.
