Arimathea
The city of the Sanhedrist Joseph of Arimathea.
Inhabitants or natives
Joseph the Elder (of Arimathea).
Description
"Arimathea is quite hilly. I don't know why, I pictured it as a plain. Yet its hills gradually slope down towards the plain which, at certain bends of the road, appears fertile on the west side and, on this November morning, disappears on the horizon under a mist that seems like an expanse of unlimited Water." ..."I realize they are talking about Joseph of Arimathea, and Thomas, who perhaps knows him very well, shows his vast and beautiful properties on the hill, especially on the side of Jerusalem, on the road that goes from the capital to Arimathea and then connects this locality with Joppa. Such is, I realize, the meaning of their conversation, and Thomas also speaks with admiration of the fields owned by Joseph that border the roads of the plain."[1]
Notable events
It is during a Banquet at Joseph's that Jesus meets some Sanhedrists, including Gamaliel. Some will be favorable to him and others irreparably hostile.[2]
Its name
יהרמת (Arimathea) - סרנתי (Rantis)[3]
Arimathea, the name generally retained by Bibles of the Catholic tradition, is called Arimathaea in the Bible LYess Second and generally in Bibles from the Protestant tradition. This is also the usage in the TOB (Ecumenical Translation of the Bible), a more accurate translation if one refers to Jerome of Stridon’s Vulgate (5th century) which speaks of Arimathaea (See the text Matthew 27:57).
Arimathea(thaea) is probably a deformation of Ramah (Judea)taim (see the note below).
Arimathea would translate as "I have chosen."
Where is it mentioned in the work?
EMV 114 EMV 141
EMV 559
Learn more about this place
Eusebius of Caesarea and Saint Jerome, the translator of the Vulgate, identify Arimathea with Ramah (Judea) of Samuel in the region of Ephraim. This is what Andrew the Apostle Chouraqui also retains in his translation by naming Joseph of Arimathea "Joseph of Ramah (Judea)taim".[4] It is indeed under this designation of Ramah (Judea)taim (or Ramah (Judea)thaïm) that the Book of Maccabees designates Ramah (Judea) of Samuel.[5]
It is therefore the Homeland of the great prophet. The house of his parents is located there. It will later become his own. The Elders of Israel and David will come to see him there and he will be buried there.[6]-[7]
Arimathea is of uncertain location. The city is generally identified with Ramah (Judea)taim, the city of Samuel (1 Sam 1:1), today Rantis or Rentis, located 35 km northwest of Jerusalem, and 13 km northeast of Lydda.
Explore
32°01'60"N 35°05'40"E
Notes and references
- ↑ EMV 114.
- ↑ EMV 114.
- ↑ Hebrew alphabet on croixsens.net.
- ↑ Matthew 27:57.
- ↑ 1 Maccabees 11:34.
- ↑ 1 Samuel: 1:19 – 2:11 – 7:17 – 8:4 – 15:34 – 16:13 – 19:18 – 25:1.
- ↑ Source: "Dictionary of the Bible", Andrew the Apostle-Marie Gérard – Robert Laffont, 2003 – ISBN 2-221-05760-0).