Aceldama
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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.
Aceldama is the Aramaic name the Jews gave to the field purchased with the money given to Judas Iscariot by the Romans for betraying Jesus. The word means "field of blood" and was named so because Judas hung himself from a tree and his entrails spilled out onto the earth. It was previously called the potter's field (Matt. 27:7, 8; Acts 1:19), and was appropriated as the burial-place for strangers. It lies on a narrow level terrace on the south face of the valley of Hinnom. Its modern name is Haked-damm.
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It is also the title of one of the works of Aleister Crowley.
