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Emmaus
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thumb|The Byzantine Basilica of Emmaus Nicopolis (5th–7th cent.), restored by Crusaders during the 12th century Emmaus ( ; ; ; ) is a town mentioned in the Gospel of Luke of the New Testament. Luke reports that Jesus appeared, after his death and resurrection, before two of his disciples while they were walking on the road to Emmaus.
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Get in
thumb|upright=1.3|Main terminal of [[Allentown#Get in|Lehigh Valley International Airport, north of Emmaus in Hanover Township]] thumb|upright=1.3|30th Street Station in [[Philadelphia]] thumb|upright=1.3|By car, Emmaus is accessible from Interstate 78, a major east-west highway that runs from central Pennsylvania near [[Harrisburg in the west to the Holland Tunnel and Manhattan in the east.]]
See
thumb|upright=1.3|Emmaus Moravian Church at 146 Main St. thumb|upright=1.3|Shelter House, built in 1734 by Pennsylvania German settlers at 601 S. 4th St., is the oldest continuously occupied building structure in the [[Lehigh Valley and among the oldest building structures in the state.]]
Do
thumb|upright=1.3|The ski lodge at Bear Creek Mountain Resort, 101 Doe Mountain Ln., Macungie thumb|upright=1.3|Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom's Steel Force and Thunderhawk roller coasters in neighboring [[Allentown. Steel Force is the 8th tallest steel roller coaster in the world with a first drop of and a top speed of ]] thumb|upright=1.3|Emmaus Theatre at 19 S. 4th St. thumb|upright=1.3|The interior of South Mall at 3300 Lehigh St. in neighboring [[Allentown]]
Buy
There are other specialty stores on Main St. in Emmaus, including: Emmaus Run Inn, Kim's Kountry Kreations. You'll also find a bunch of consignment shops, including Now and Then Books, Let's Play Books Bookstore, FD Market, and others.
Eat
There are many restaurants in Emmaus, including:
Sleep
There are no hotels in Emmaus, but there are many nearby. Check out these five, plus the more extensive list on the Allentown page:
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Encyclopedic overview
27 sectionsContents
- Names and location
- Emmaus in the New Testament
- Possible locations
- Historical identification
- Emmaus Nicopolis/Imwas
- Hellenistic, Hasmonean period
- Roman period
- Byzantine period
- Early Muslim period
- Crusader period
- Ottoman period
- British Mandate
- Jordan
- Israel
- Archaeology
- Identification with the Gospel site
- Al-Qubeiba/Castellum Emmaus/Chubebe/Qubaibat
- Abu-Ghosh/Kiryat Anavim
- Emmaus/Colonia/Motza/Ammassa/Ammaous/Khirbet Mizza
- Horvat 'Eqed
- Possible symbolic identification
- Contemporary use
- Notable residents
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|The Byzantine Basilica of Emmaus Nicopolis (5th–7th cent.), restored by Crusaders during the 12th century Emmaus ( ; ; ; ) is a town mentioned in the Gospel of Luke of the New Testament. Luke reports that Jesus appeared, after his death and resurrection, before two of his disciples while they were walking on the road to Emmaus.
Although its geographical identification is not certain, several locations have been suggested throughout history, chiefly Imwas and Al-Qubeiba, both in the West Bank. It is known only that it was connected by a road to Jerusalem; the distance given by Luke varies in different manuscripts and the figure given has been made even more ambiguous by interpretations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Emmaus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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