Ἐμμαοῦς

Ἐμμαοῦς, ἡ (Ἐμμαούς oth. edd.) Emmaus, a village (κώμη) in Judea 60 stades (c. 11.5 km.) fr. Jerusalem Lk 24:13. The site cannot be determined w. certainty. Three are proposed: 1. The old Emmaus of Maccabaean times, not infreq. mentioned by Joseph. (Niese edition, index), later Nicopolis, and now ˓Amwâs; so Eusebius-Jerome, Onomastikon p. 90 Kl.; JBoehmer (Studierstube 6, 1908, 285–89; ET 20, 1909, 186–89; 429); Dalman (Orte³ 240–49=Engl. tr. 226–32); LPirot (Dict. de la Bible, Suppl. II ’34, 1049–63); EBishop, ET 55, ’43/44, 152f, et al.; CKopp, The Holy Places of the Gospels, tr. RWalls, ’63, 396–400. It is located rather far fr. Jerusalem for the 60 stades of vs. 13; but F-MAbel (RB 34, 1925, 347–67) prefers to take the v.l. 160 stades as the original (but s. Metzger 184).—2. Since the middle ages some have thought of present-day el-Kubêbe (65 stades fr. Jerusalem; Baedeker, Plummer, Zahn et al., later PViaud, Qoubeibeh Emm. évangélique 1930 [against this HVincent, RB 40, ’31, 57–91]; AdeGuglielmo, CBQ 3, ’41, 293–301).—3. The military colony of Vespasian, about 34 stades west of Jerusalem, called Ἀμμαοῦς in Jos. (Bell. 7, 217, where a v.l. has ἑξήκοντα for τριάκοντα: an assimilation to Lk 24:13?) and presumably identical w. present-day Kaloniye (Buhl 166; 186; Schürer I 512–13, details n. 142; Wlh. et al.). S. also M-JLagrange, Luc 1921, 617ff; HVincent and F-MAbel, Emmaüs, sa Basilique et son Histoire ’32; Geographie II,³ ’67, 314–16; BHHW I 404.—JWanke, Die Emmauserzählung ’73 (lit.). OEANE II 240f.