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100
The place where Abraham almost sacrificed Isaac.
What is Mount Moriah?
100
The city in which Jerome translated the Hebrew scriptures.
What is Bethlehem?
100
The first Umayyad caliph, who had himself crowned in Jerusalem.
Who is Muawiya?
100
The favorite Catholic holy site of Protestants.
What is the Garden of Gethsemane?
100
Where W.A. Hamlett thought Orthodox and Catholic Christianity had been “hatched.”
What is hell?
200
The city in which the patriarchs are thought to be buried.
What is Hebron?
200
The structure which Constantine built to house the aedicule (tomb of Christ).
What is the Anastasis?
200
The Arabic term for the direction a mihrab points.
What is the qibla?
200
An alternate tomb of Christ popularized by General Charles “Chinese” Gordon.
What is the Garden Tomb?
200
Burial places of Adam.
What are Golgotha and the Temple Mount (Haram al-Sharif)?
300
The thing Jewish pilgrims did (after 70 CE) when they first set eyes on Jerusalem.
What is tear their garments?
300
The bishop who “liturgicized” the city of Jerusalem in the fourth century.
Who is Cyril of Jerusalem?
300
Muhammad’s “night flight,” as suggested in Sura 17:1.
What is the isra?
300
A petition presented to President Benjamin Harrison that called on the US government to help restore the Jews to Palestine.
What is the Blackstone Memorial?
300
She watched a cross once (in the 380s).
Who is Egeria?
400
The day on which Jews fast, forego wearing leather shoes, sit on the floor of the synagogue, and read from Lamentations.
What is the Ninth of Av (Tesha b'Av)?
400
The author of the Dialogue with Trypho, a 2nd-century work that gives insight into how early Christians viewed their connection to Judaism.
Who is Justin Martyr?
400
Built to commemorate Muhammad’s ascension.
What is the Dome of the Ascension (Qubbat al-Miraj)?
400
A British outfit charged with surveying the Holy Land and excavating important sites, such as tels.
What is the Palestine Exploration Fund?
400
It's not quite a hajj. Not quite an umra.
What is a ziyara?
500
Where we wept when we remembered Zion.
What are the "rivers of Babylon?"
500
Jerome’s friend who licked the tomb of Christ.
Who is Paula?
500
Jerusalemite geographer of the 10th century.
Who is al-Muqaddisi?
500
Anthony Ashley-Cooper.
Who was the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury?
500
“Chinese” thespian.
Who is Charlton Heston?
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