example of the setting-up of a sepulchral n ument ;
caves having been up to this time spoken of as the usual places of burial. The spot was well known in the time of Samuel and Saul (] Sam. x,2 I; and the prophet Jeremiah, by a poetic figure of great force and beauty, represents the buried Rachel weeping for the loss and captivity of her children, as the bands of the exiles, led away on their road to Babylon, passed near her tomb (Jer. xwi. 15 17). Matthew iii. 17. 18) applies this to the daughter by Herod of the infants at Bethlehem.
See I,' \l Mil..
The position of the Ramah here spoken of is one of the disputed questions in the topography of Palestine [see Ramah]; but the site of Rachel's tomb, "on the way to Bethlehem," "a little way to come to Ephrath," "in the border of Benjamin," has never been questioned.
It is al t five miles south of Jerusalem, and half a
mile north of Bethlehem. "It is one of the shrines which Moslems, dews, and Christians agree in honor- ing, and concerning which their traditions are identi- cal, h was visited by Maundrell in 1697. The de- scription given by I>r. Robinson (i, 218) may serve as the representative of the many accounts, all agreeing with each other, which may be read in almost every
i b of Eastern travel. It is "merely an ordinary
Moslem toely, or tomb of a holy person a small square building of -tone with a dome, and within it a tomb in the ordinary .Mohammedan form, the whole plastered over with mortar. Of course the building is not an- cient: in the 7th century there was here only a pyra- mid of stones. It is now neglected and falling to decay, though pilgrimages are still made to ii by the Jews. The naked walls are covered with minis in several lan- any of them in Hebrew. The general cor- rectness of lb, i radii ion which has fixed upon this spot for the tomb of Rachel cannot will be drawn in ques- tion, since it is fully supported by the circumstances of the Scriptural narrative, It is also mentioned by the /,'///. Hieros., A.I'. :;:;::. and by Jerome I Ep. Ixxxvi, a<I Eustoch. Epitaph. Paula) in the same century." since Robinson's visit, it has been enlarged by the addition of a square court on the east side, with high walls and
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arches (Zafer Researches, p. 273). Schwarz (Palest. p. 109 sq.) Btrongly Bupports the identity of the true
grave of Rachel with the m iment which now bears
that name (see also Bibliotheca Sacra, 1830, p. 602;
.In, n a. of Sac. Lit. April. l*r,l . This i ument is
particularly described by Backett (Must, of Script
p. 1"1 sq. '. s, , Ih.i in i.iii m.
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Rachel's Tomb.
Racine, Bonaventure, a French priest and his- torian, was born at Chaunv. Nov. 25, 1708, and was the son of the most illustrious of French poets. lie was educated at Paris, in the College Mazarin, and made re- markable progress in the languages and in theology.
In 1729 hi' was placd at the bead of the < Kabasteins; but in 1731, becoming satisfied of tin- in- justice done the Jansenists in the bull Unigenitus [see Jansenism], he took ground against it. and thereby so displeased the powers that were at Koine and at Paris that he was displaced. The bishop of Montpellier, how- ever, took his part, and gave him the presidency of the college at Lunel. Hut the Jesuits set the flames of op- position going, and Racine was obliged to quit Lunel in much haste. He went to Paris, and there supported himself by teaching as a private tutor after having been ousted, by order of the cardinal Fleury. from a minor position lie had secured at a Paris college. Final- ly the bishop of Auxerre, M. de < !aj lus, took an interest in Racine, called him into his diocese, and gave him a canonicate in his cathedral. He died Maj 1">. 17."-".. He wrote much. 1 lis principal work is an A VHistoirt Ecclesiastigrui (Paris, L748 56, 13 vols. 4to), which clearly reveals the position of its author on the important ecclesiastical questions ,,f hi. lime, and is a valuable index to the Jansenistic proclivities of France in the 18th century. His Reflexions .-•»>■ VBistm l - clesiastigui (2 vols. L2mo) are not less valuable. See Feller, Diet. Historigue, s. v. Hoefer, Nouv.Bi
lilt, . S. V.
Radbertus. See Paschasius.
Radbod, St., a Dutch prelate of the Church of Koine, flourished in i he second half of the 9th ei ntury. I le was educated ai ( iologne, and. being of noble birth, was much at the court of Charles the Bald. In 899 be was placed over the church at Utrecht, and he ruled this episcopal charge with great devotion and honor. He died, according to Mabillon, in '.'is. For bis writ- ings, see Histoin Liitiram <!• in France, vi. L58.
Rad'daidlcb. A',,,/,/,//.---, irampli g; Sept'Patf- Sat v.r.Zniiuii'i, the fifth of the seven sons of Jesse, and an elder brother of king David tl Chron. ii. lit. I!.C. lot'.s. lie does not appear in the Bible elsewhere than in this list, unless he be, as EwaW conjectures (Geachichte, iii, 266, i :), identical with Rei (q.v.).