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24-733: Al-Ram identified with Ramah in Benjamin , a town mentioned multiple times in the Bible . Archeological evidence shows that the town was heavily populated during the Iron Age II , declined during the Persian period , and later revived during the Hellenistic period . Ossuaries dated to the first century BC and CE were discovered at Al-Ram bearing Hebrew inscriptions with names such as Miriam , Yehohanan , and Shimon ben Zekhariya . In Crusader sources, Al-Ram

48-458: A bas-relief of rosettes, has been found by Dr. Chaplin within the building." In 1883, SWP noted that "west of the village is the Mukam of Sheik Hasein, once a small Christian basilica ". It further described it as "The remains of the north aisle 6 feet 8 inches wide, are marked by four columns 2 feet in diameter. The chamber of the saint's tomb occupies part of the nave , and into its north wall

72-402: A church". In 1870, Guérin described "a mosque, replacing a former Christian church, of which it occupies the choir; the inhabitants venerate there the memory of Shaykh Hasen. The columns of this sanctuary come from the church." In 1881, Lieutenant Conder reported: "At the shrine which is so conspicuous near this village are remains of a former chapel. The lintel stone (as it would seem), with

96-465: A meeting place during Samuel 's rule. Ramah was later fortified by Baasha , king of the northern kingdom , in order to control access to Jerusalem ( 1 Kings 15:17–22 ; 2 Chronicles 16:1–6 ). Asa , king of the southern kingdom of Judah , employed Ben-Hadad I , the Syrian king, successfully to attack Baasha at home and draw his forces away from this city ( 1 Kings 15:18 ). The biblical account states that

120-799: A total of 15 such stone masks from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period have been discovered in the Southern Levant , one known to have had been bought in the late 19th century from villagers in Er-Ram and now kept at the Palestine Exploration Fund in London. Dr Thomas J. Chaplin (1830–1904) was the director of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews ' own British Hospital for

144-448: A total of 4700 akçe . In 1838, Edward Robinson found the village to be very poor and small, but large stones and scattered columns indicated that it had previously been an important place. In 1870 the French explorer Victor Guérin found the village to have 200 inhabitants, while an Ottoman village list of about the same year showed that Er-Ram had 32 houses and a population of 120, though

168-487: The 1995 accords , 33.2% (or about ~2,226 dunums) of Al-Ram's land is classified as Area B land, while the remaining 66.8% (~4,482 dunums) was defined as Area C . Israel has confiscated land from Al-Ram in order to build two Israeli settlement /Industrial parks: In 2006, the Israeli High Court rejected three petitions objecting to the construction of a security barrier separating Al-Ram from Jerusalem. The route of

192-449: The Book of Judges , a Levite came traveling to Gibeah , with Ramah just ahead ( Judges 19:11–15 ). Ramathaim-zophim is the town that was home to Samuel 's mother Hannah and his father Elkanah , from which they journeyed to the sanctuary at Shiloh , where Hannah prayed to God to end her barrenness and give her a child ( 1 Samuel 1:1 ). Ramah is mentioned in 1 Samuel 8:4 in reference to

216-525: The British Mandate authorities , Al-Ram had a population of 208, all Muslims. This had increased in the 1931 census to 262, still all Muslim, in 51 houses. Al-Ram suffered badly in the 1927 earthquake , with old walls collapsing. In a survey in 1945 , Al-Ram had a population of 350, all Muslims, and a total land area of 5,598 dunams . 441 dunams were designated for plantations and irrigable land, 2,291 for cereals, while 14 dunams were built-up area. In

240-809: The European Union , inspects and scrutinizes Israeli colonizing activities in the West Bank and Gaza, and disseminates the related information to policy makers in the European countries and to the general public. In 2011 ARIJ, along with the TTZ Bremerhaven, the University of Extremadura , and the Institute on Membrane Technology of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ITM) started a project with

264-678: The West Bank . ARIJ is actively working on research projects in the fields of management of natural resources, water management , sustainable agriculture and political dynamics of development in the Palestinian Territories . Together with the Land Research Center (LRC), ARIJ runs a joint project named 'POICA', Eye on Palestine–Monitoring Israeli Colonizing activities in the Palestinian Territories . The project, funded by

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288-578: The lintel of the old door is built, a stone 10 feet long, half of which is visible, with designs as shown. In the courtyard east of this chamber is an old well of good water and a fine mulberry-tree. In the west wall of the Mukam other stones, with discs in low relief, are built in." Ramah in Benjamin Ramah (from Hebrew: "height" ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible , a city in ancient Israel in

312-479: The Jews in Jerusalem for some 25 years. Two Crusader structures have been identified in the town. Archaeologists have identified the ruins of a Crusader courtyard building developed from an initial tower , as the grange of a Frankish new town founded by 1160. The former (old) mosque of Al-Ram was once a Crusader parish church . In 1838, Robinson noted that "A small mosk with columns seems once to have been

336-432: The church. On the hill are cisterns . Drafted stones are used up in the village walls. At Khan-er-Ram, by the main road, is a quarry with half-finished blocks still in it, and two cisterns. The Khan appears to be quite modern, and is in ruins. There are extensive quarries on the hill-sides near it." In 1896, the population of Er-Ram was estimated to be about 240 persons. In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by

360-577: The fence planned to encircle northern Jerusalem has been revised several times. The latest plan, effectively implemented, called for a "minimalist" route following the municipal boundary at a distance of several hundred meters. This has left the town of Al-Ram almost entirely outside of the fence, with the exception of the southern part of the town, called Dahiyat al-Barid. The Survey of Western Palestine mentions that Dr. Chaplin, who had visited er-Ram with an interest for archaeological remains, had "a very curious stone mask... in his possession, obtained from

384-650: The fortifications were later dismantled by decree of King Asa and the materials used to fortify Judah's defenses at nearby Geba and Mizpah ( 1 Kings 15:22 ; 2 Chronicles 16:6 ). When Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians, those taken captive were assembled in Ramah before being moved to Babylon ( Jeremiah 40:1 ). Jeremiah said: Rachel – the ancestress of the three tribes, Ephraim , Manasseh , and Benjamin – had so desired children that she considered herself dead without them ( Genesis 30:1 ). Jeremiah said that she

408-609: The land allocated to the tribe of Benjamin . It was located near Gibeon and Mizpah to the West, Gibeah to the South, and Geba to the East. Ramah has been commonly identified with modern al-Ram , about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of Jerusalem . Na'aman preferred to identify Ramah with the nearby site of Nabi Samwil . The city is first mentioned in Joshua 18:25 , near Gibeah of Benjamin. In

432-458: The population count included men only. In 1883, the PEF 's Survey of Western Palestine described Er-Ram as a "small village in a conspicuous position on the top of a white hill, with olives. It has a well to the south. [..] The houses are of stone, partly built of old material". "West of the village is a good birkeh with a pointed vault ; lower down the hill a pillar-shaft broken in two, probably from

456-581: The village. It represents a human face without hair or beard, the nose well-cut, the eyes and mouth very feebly designed. The mask is hollowed out behind, and has two deep holes at the back as if to fix it to a wall. It is over a foot in longer diameter, and curiously resembles some of the faces of the Moabite collection of Mr. Shapira . There cannot well be any question of its genuine character, and nothing like it has been found, so far as I know, in Palestine." By 2018,

480-505: The wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements , Al-Ram came under Jordanian rule . In 1961, the population of Al-Ram was 769. Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Al-Ram has been under Israeli occupation . The population in a 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 860, 86 of whom originated from the Israeli territory. According to ARIJ , after

504-522: Was figuratively weeping because of the loss of the people killed or taken in captivity. And since she was the mother of Benjamin, it would fit because those in Ramah were Benjamites. In the New Testament , Ramah is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew ( 2:18 ), where it is stated that Jeremiah's prophecy about Rachel received "a second accomplishment" in the slaughter of boy children carried out when Herod

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528-507: Was king: 31°51′00″N 35°13′54″E  /  31.8500°N 35.2317°E  / 31.8500; 35.2317 This article related to the Hebrew Bible is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Applied Research Institute%E2%80%93Jerusalem The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem ( ARIJ ; Arabic : معهد الابحاث التطبيقية - القدس ) is a Palestinian NGO founded in 1990 with its main office in Bethlehem in

552-561: Was named Aram, Haram, Rama, Ramatha, Ramitta, or Ramathes . Al-Ram was one of 21 villages given by Godfrey of Bouillon (r. 1099–1100) as a fief to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre . All the inhabitants of the village who were mentioned in Crusader sources between 1152 and 1160 had names which imply they were Christian. The village was mentioned around 1161, when a dispute about a land boundary

576-605: Was settled. In 1517, the village became part of the Ottoman Empire along with the rest of Palestine . In the 1596 tax records , it appeared as Rama , located in the Nahiya of Jabal Quds of the Liwa of Al-Quds . The population was 28 households, all Muslim . They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat , barley , olive trees and vineyards , in addition to occasional revenues, goats and beehives ;

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