Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions : A Journal of Travels in the Years 1838 and 1852 (Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology)

Robinson, Edward/ Smith, Eli

Cambridge University Press（2015/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 622 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108079891
• DDC分類 915.694043

Full Description

American philologist Edward Robinson (1794-1863) is considered a founding figure in the field of biblical geography and archaeology. In 1838 he explored Palestine with Eli Smith (1801-57), a Yale graduate and Protestant missionary, and co-author of Missionary Researches in Armenia (also reissued in this series). Smith had settled in Beirut and was proficient in Arabic. The authors succeeded in identifying many biblical locations, and the original edition of their book, structured as a travel journal, was published in 1841. It was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society the following year. Robinson and Smith returned to Palestine in 1852 and published an enlarged edition in 1856. This reissue is of the 1857 third edition, which was slightly abridged but contained new maps and plans. Volume 2 describes their visits to Gaza, Hebron, Nazareth, Tyre and Beirut, and the religious communities of the region, Christian and Muslim.

Contents

11. From Jerusalem to Gaza and Hebron; 12. From Hebron to Wady Musa and back; 13. From Hebron to Ramleh and back; 14. From Jerusalem to Nazareth and Mount Tabor; 15. From Mount Tabor by the lake of Tiberias to Safed; 16. From Safed by Tyre and Sidon to Beirut; 17. Religious sects in Syria and Palestine; Notes; Appendices; Itinerary; Indices.