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Menachem ben Peretz of Hebron (or Menachem ben R. Peretz of Hebron, or Menachen ben Peretz; Hebrew: מנחם החברוני, pronounced: ''Menachem ha-Hevroni'', lit. Menachem of Hebron) is the alleged-name of a French Jew who spent several years in Hebron in the first quarter of the 13th century. He is described as a writer of an epistle, in which, among other things, he documented the tradition of identification of Jewish holy sites in the Land of Israel, sites which he got to know form Jewish inhabitants of the Land of Israel during his years of residence and travels there. ==Content == The treatise which contains the epistle attributed to him is made of two parts: The first part, a kind of travelogue, depicting a pilgrimage to various sites in the Land of Israel, and the second part is full of fiction stories. The second part describes Menachem as prayer leader for eight years in Hebron, and specifies a date: Tammuz, ד'תתקע"ה (1215) The depiction of the journey begins in Hebron, where the author visits the tombs of ancestors; he then continues the tomb of Jonah, and then he turns to visit Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem. From there he turns to Jerusalem, where he stayed and prayed in the presence of a large Jewish community. In Mount Zion he saw the Tombs of the Kings and was also able to see the location of the Holy Temple and the fact that the Western Wall "Still exists". From the Mount of Olives he looked out on the altar built by Ezra, and in the Valley of Josaphat he saw the Tomb of Zechariah "Who was a priest and a prophet" and the Tomb of Absalom. From that point on the journey becomes confused, and the names of the sites listed in it are not arranged in any logical order. In addition, various sites are not in the place known today. For example, he locates the tomb of Simeon bar Yochai at Kfar Hananya, and the tomb of Dinah, which the rest of the pilgrims place it at Mount Arbel, he places it near Nablus. The second section of the travelogue is a collection of legends, each one starting with the opening sentence: "And R. Menachem ben Peretz told us more" Adolf Neubauer was the first to publish the essay in ''ha-Levanon'' paper (V, 40, 1868, p. 626-629), and thereafter Abraham Moses Luncz had also published it in ''Ha- Me'amer'' (III, 1919, p. 36-46) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Menachem ben Peretz of Hebron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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