Bet Schemal

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Tomb of St. Stephen, Gamaliel, Nicodemus and Gamaliel's son Abibas

Bet Jemal ( Hebrew בית ג'מאל) or Bet el-Jemal ( Arabic بيت جمال, DMG Bait Ǧimāl orبيت الحكمة / Bait al-Ḥikma ) is a Catholic monastery in the Judean Mountains in the area of ​​the city of Bet Shemesh , southwest of the center, in Israel . It consists of the "Church of St. Stephen" as well as a monastery and a nunnery. The monks belong to the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco , the nuns to the Monastic Family of Bethlehem, the Assumption of Mary and St. Bruno .

history

Kfar Gamla

The name comes from the historical Kfar Gamla ( Hebrew כפר גמלה; "Village of the Camel Bumps ") back.

The Judeo-Christian tradition assumes that Rabban Gamaliel I - President of the Sanhedrin , St. Stephen , Nicodemus and Gamaliel's son Abibas are buried on the site of St. Stephen's Church. St. Stephen's Church was built in 1930 on the ruins of a Byzantine church from the 5th century. In 2003 an architrave or lintel with a tabula ansata was discovered . The script was deciphered by Émile Puech (born May 9, 1941 in Cazelles de Sébrazac, parish of Estaing ), an expert on ancient scripts from the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem , and reads: "DIAKONIKON STEPHANOU PROTOMARTYROS". This is considered proof that Bet Jemal is identical to the old Kfar Gamla - the traditional burial place of Saint Stephen.

Beit Gemal School

Father Antonio Belloni founded the Beit Gemal School for Agriculture here for the benefit of destitute young people and orphans after he had bought the property in 1878. In 1892 the Salesians of Don Bosco took over the establishment after Belloni had converted to the Salesian Order. The monastery has a small shop that sells olive oil and red wine made on site . There is also a small hall where concerts are given on some weekends.

Weather station

The first weather station in Palestine was set up in Bet Jemal in 1919; it is still in operation today.

Filming location for Promised Land

Bet Dschemal was used as the filming location for the British base in Palestine: Stella Maris .

Bet Dschemal served as the filming location for the British base in Palestine : Stella Maris in the multi-part TV series Promised Land . The real Stella Maris Monastery (also called Monastery of the Madonna of Mount Carmel ) is a Carmelite monastery on the Carmel Mountains in Haifa .

Web links

Commons : Bet Dschemal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Othmar Keel, Max Küchler, Christoph Uehlinger: Bet el-Dschemal. In: Places and Landscapes of the Bible. Volume 2. The South. ISBN 3-545-23042-2 , pp. 817/18 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Antonio Scudu: Santo Stefano: primo martire cristiano: morire perdonando. Salesiani Don Bosco, Bet Gemal 2007, pp. 8-9.
  3. ^ Andrzej Strus: Beit-Gemal puo 'essere il luogo di sepoltura di Santo Stefano? Salesianum 54 (1992) pp. 1-26.
  4. ^ Andrzej Strus, Edgar Krentz: BOOK REVIEWS - Khirbet Fattir - Bet Gamal: Two Ancient Jewish and Christian Sites in Israel. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies . 66, no.3, 2007, p. 234.
  5. ^ Andrzej Strus, Ermanno A Arslan et al .: Khirbet Fattir, Bet Gemal: two ancient Jewish and Christian sites in Israel. Rome 2003, OCLC 53066173 .
  6. ↑ Andrzej Strus: Bet Gemal and the Byzantine Tradition regarding St Stephen. In: Ecce ascendimus Jerosolymam (Lc 18, 31). Mosetto, Rom 2003, pp. 399-418.
  7. ↑ Antonio Scudu: Santo Stefano: primo martire cristiano: morire perdonando. Salesiani Don Bosco, Bet Gemal 2007, p. 6.
  8. ↑ Emile Puech: Un mausolée de saint Etienne à Khirbet Jiljil - Beit Gemal (Pl. I). In: Revue Biblique 113/1 (January 2006), OCLC 194175435 , pp. 100-126.
  9. ↑ Antonio Scudu: Santo Stefano: primo martire cristiano: morire perdonando. Salesiani Don Bosco, Bet Gemal 2007, p. 9.
  10. ^ Don Bosco in Terra Santa / en Terre Sainte / in the Holy Land 1891-1991. Centenario dell'arrivo dei Salesiani e delle Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice in Terra Santa. Jerusalem 1991, p. 106.

Coordinates: 31 ° 43 ′ 30 ″  N , 34 ° 58 ′ 35 ″  E