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Le Repas d'Emmaüs
Mattias Storm: "Supper in Emmaus", 1601

Emmaus is a place in named in the Bible, where Jesus had supper with two followers. These two people met Jesus after his Resurrection. The two disciples walked together on the road. Jesus started walking together with them. But they never recognized Jesus. They started to tell him what happened in Jerusalem, when Jesus was crucified. Jesus continued walking with them until they got to a village called Emmaus. They started eating supper. The two disciples still did not recognize Jesus. But when Jesus blessed the food amnd broke the bread they recognized him. When they did recognize him, he vanished.

Tradition

According to a very ancient Christian tradition, Emmaus is today's Arab village of Amwas, which lies 160 stadia (30 km, 19 miles) to the West of Jerusalem. It can take 6 to 7 hours to come from Jerusalem to Emmaus on foot, if one walks across the mountains of Judea. The place was called Nicopolis during the 3d-7th centuries AD. During Byzantine times, two big Basilicas (churches) where built here with beautiful mosaics and a baptistry (a place for baptism). Many manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke have a shorter distance between Jerusalem and Emmaus: 60 stadia (12 km, 7 miles). It is this distance which is found in modern printed Bibles. During the Crusader and Renaissance times many Christians, traveling to the Holy Land, were looking for Emmaus at the distance of 7 miles from Jerusalem. That's why several villages which lie 12 km away from Jerusalem were thought to be Emmaus. Even today one can find three Emmaus in the Holy Land: Emmaus Nicopolis, Qubeibe and Abu-Gosh!

Emmaus in Art

  • Attributed to Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (Italian) - The Supper at Emmaus - Google Art Project

    Bartolomeo Cavarozzi: "Supper in Emmaus", 1615 - 1625

  • Caravaggio.emmaus.750pix

    Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio, 1601

  • Christ and the Disciples in Emmaus Follower of Caravagio

    Caravaggio's school

  • CaravaggioEmmaus

    Caravaggio: "Supper in Emmaus"

  • Filippo Tarchiani, la cena di emmaus, los angeles

    "La Cena di Emmaus" by Filippo Tarchiani (1625), County Museum, Los Angeles

  • Barbieri Cena in Emmaus

    A painting from Pinacoteca Civica in Cento, 1628

Coordinates: 31°50′21.48″N, 34°59′22.05″E

  • Emmaus-Nicopolis, official site [1]
  • Edward Robinson, "Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petrae", v. II. — Boston: 1841, p. 363 [2], "Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions, the Voyage of 1852". — Boston: 1856, p.p. 146-148 [3]
  • Strack, Billerbeck, "Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud & Midrasch", v. II. — München: 1924, 1989, p.p. 269-271. ISBN: 3-406-02725-3
  • Vincent, Abel "Emmaüs". — Paris: 1932.
  • P. Duvignau, Emmaüs, "Le site - le mystère". — Paris: 1937.
  • V. Michel, "Le complexe ecclésiastique d’Emmaüs-Nicopolis". — Paris, Sorbonne,1996-1997, pro manuscripto.
  • K.-H. Fleckenstein, M. Louhivuori, R. Riesner, "Emmaus in Judäa". — Giessen-Basel: 2003.ISBN: 3-7655-9811-9

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