11 Facts About Emmaus

Emmaus is a town mentioned in the Gospel of Luke of the New Testament.

Place-name Emmaus is relatively common in classical sources about the Levant and is usually derived through Greek and Latin from the Semitic word for "warm spring", the Hebrew form of which is hamma or hammat.

Name for Emmaus was hellenized during the 2nd century BC and appears in Jewish and Greek texts in many variations: Ammaus, Ammaum, Emmaus, Emmaum, Maus, Amus, etc.

Emmaus is mentioned by this name in Midrash Zutta for Song of Songs 6,8 and Midrash Rabba for Lamentations 1,45, and in the Midrash Rabba on Ecclesiastes.

Emmaus is mentioned in the Gospel of Luke as the village where Jesus appeared to his disciples after his crucifixion and resurrection.

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On reaching Emmaus, they ask the stranger to join them for the evening meal.

Emmaus is the Greek variant of the Hebrew word and place-name for hot springs, hammat, and is therefore not unique to one location, which makes the identification of the New Testament site more difficult.

Emmaus Nicopolis is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

Emmaus offered that the Latin Amassa and the Greek Ammaous are derived from the biblical Hebrew name Motza: Motza – ha-Motza – ha-Mosa – Amosa – Amaous – Emmaus.

Emmaus contended that neither Nicopolis, Abu Ghosh, or Al-Qubeiba can be considered because the first was located too far from Jerusalem, while the two others were not called Emmaus at the time of Jesus.

The story recounted in Luke's gospel parallels the earlier Roman myth: Cleopas, while traveling by road from Jerusalem to Emmaus after learning of the death of Jesus, meets Jesus in disguise.