Joseph L. Rife (eds.), "Bede, Holy Places 5.3-5.9" in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia entry published October 19, 2022, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/308
   
      
         
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         and Caesaream vero Palestinae is directly attested at Bede, Holy Places 5.3-5.9. This passage was written ca. 702-703 CE possibly in Hexham.
         The “venerable” Bede was one of the great historians of the Early
            Middle Ages. Descended from an Anglo-Saxon family of status, he was a Benedictine monk
            at the monasteries of St. Peter and Paul in Northumbria, in what is today northeastern
            England. Besides his magnum opus, Church History of the English People,
            his diverse and erudite literary production included the short account of the Holy Land,
            an early work of Bede’s written during his priesthood at Hexham. This passage describes
            the natural terrain from the Judaean hills west to the coast as far as Caesarea. Here
            Bede depends fully on the account of Adomnán, the abbot of Iona who had visited his
            monastery a few years earlier, and this passage was copied by Peter the Deacon, who
            wrote his Holy Places some 450 years later.
         
        
        Circa Hierusalem aspera ac montuosa cernuntur loca. Hinc quoque
            septemtrionem versus usque Arimathiam terra petrosa et aspera per intervalla quaedam
            monstratur, valles quoque spinosae usque ad Thamnicam regionem patentes. Ad
               Caesaream vero Palestinae ab Aelia quamvis aliqua reperriantur
            angusta et brevia aspera loca, praecipue tamen planities camporum interpositis olivetis.
            Distant autem LXXV milibus passuum.
        
        
        Ed. Fraipont 1965
      
         
        
        Around Jerusalem one sees that the land is rough and mountainous.
            From there to the north up to Arimathia the terrain proves to be rocky and rough in
            certain areas, and the valleys extending as far as the Thamnic region are full of thorny
            vegetation. But from Aelia to Caesarea Palestinae, although here and there can be found
            rough spots over narrow, short stretches, by and large the plains are flat, with olive
            trees spread about. The distance is 75 miles.Trans. J. L. Rife
               
        
        
      
         
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        Admonán, Holy Places 1.20
        Jerome, Place Names 37
        Peter the Deacon, Holy Places 5.1
      
      
        Arimathea (Ramathaim-Zophim)
        Jerusalem
        Thamnia
      
      
        Samuel the Prophet
      
      
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