{"id":1106,"date":"2010-06-26T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T13:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2010\/06\/lands-of-the-bible-2010-laodicea-and-hierapolis-ii.html"},"modified":"2010-06-26T13:05:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T13:05:28","slug":"lands-of-the-bible-2010-laodicea-and-hierapolis-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/06\/lands-of-the-bible-2010-laodicea-and-hierapolis-ii.html","title":{"rendered":"Lands of the Bible 2010&#8211;Laodicea and Hierapolis II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/Bble%20Lands%202010%20387.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Bble Lands 2010 387.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/Bble Lands 2010 387-thumb-500x281-15252.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\">Hierapolis, today known as Pammukale (cotton castle) has also been undergoing an upgrade including an upgrade&nbsp;of&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/Bble%20Lands%202010%20388.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Bble Lands 2010 388.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/Bble Lands 2010 388-thumb-500x888-15250.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"888\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\">imaginative&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/Bble%20Lands%202010%20389.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"Bble Lands 2010 389.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/Bble Lands 2010 389-thumb-500x888-15245.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"888\" \/><\/a>signs.&nbsp; The town gets its modern name from the limestone cliffs that characterize the area and the hot springs that people since antiquity have come here to take advantage.&nbsp; From a Christian point of view however this town became a famous center of early Christianity, home to both Bishop Papias, the earliest commentator on the origins of our Gospels, and Philip&#8217;s prophesying daughters.&nbsp; Below you see the overview from on top of the white cliffs down towards the rest of the town. Hierapolis ironically is the place where people came to get well in the hot springs, but in fact they mostly ended up dying here, which explains the huge nercropolis at the entrance to the city.&nbsp; What does it tell you when there are more people in the city of the dead, than in the city of the living even though Hierapolis was a sizable city (perhaps as much as 80,000 people in Papias&#8217;s day). The picture below also shows us the famous Lycus valley which is where Colosssae, Laodicea, and Hierapolis can all be found.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/Bble%20Lands%202010%20390.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Bble Lands 2010 390.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/Bble Lands 2010 390-thumb-500x281-15254.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hierapolis, today known as Pammukale (cotton castle) has also been undergoing an upgrade including an upgrade&nbsp;of&nbsp; imaginative&nbsp;&nbsp;signs.&nbsp; The town gets its modern name from the limestone cliffs that characterize the area and the hot springs that people since antiquity have come here to take advantage.&nbsp; From a Christian point of view however this town became&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lands of the Bible 2010-Laodicea and Hierapolis II - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/06\/lands-of-the-bible-2010-laodicea-and-hierapolis-ii.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lands of the Bible 2010-Laodicea and Hierapolis II - The Bible and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hierapolis, today known as Pammukale (cotton castle) has also been undergoing an upgrade including an upgrade&nbsp;of&nbsp; 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