Emmans, a village of Judea, not far from Jerusalem (Luke, xxiv. 13), which after the Jewish war was colonised with 800 Roman veterans. A writer in the quarterly statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund (January 1883) identifies it with the valley of the Urtas, 7 miles from Jerusalem, and south of Bethlehem, where costly baths have been discovered.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 329
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