Ramah (Judea)
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The village of Thomas.
Inhabitants or natives[edit | edit source]
Thomas the apostle, his sister, his step-brother, his father and his Family, Nicodemus the Sanhedrist have a property there.
Description[edit | edit source]
A gently sloping secondary road leads them to the very low small hill on which Ramah (Judea) is located.
It is a Gospelized village devoted to Jesus, as Thomas specifies when it comes to finding a refuge near Jerusalem which has become hostile: "Ramah too..." says Thomas, who is attached to his town. "My father and my step-brother have thought of You with Nicodemus."[1]
Notable facts[edit | edit source]
Jesus gives the parable of the number of the elect (the narrow gate) there.[2]
Its name[edit | edit source]
רָמוֹת (Ramot)[3]
Ramah (Judea) means "height" - Ramah (Judea) of Benjamin is located about ten km north of Jerusalem. Today Er-Ram (Ramot polin). It is a suburb of greater Jerusalem.
To be distinguished from Ramah (Judea) of Samuel the prophet (Ramah (Judea)taim) later becoming Arimathea or from Ramot, a city of Gilead.
Where is it mentioned in the work?[edit | edit source]
GRM 363
GRM 488 GRM 489
GRM 563 GRM 566 GRM 582
GRM 628
Learn more about this place[edit | edit source]
The palm tree where the judge the prophetess Deborah sits is located between this town and the nearby town of Bethel.[4]
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Notes and references[edit | edit source]
Note: Quotations from the work of Maria Valtorta on this page currently use machine-translated text and will gradually be replaced by the official English translation. Until then, the official translation may be consulted through the reference link provided with each quotation.