Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions
A Journal of Travels in the Years 1838 and 1852

The 1867 three-volume third edition of a pioneering work of biblical geography, illustrated with maps and plans.

Edward Robinson (Author), Eli Smith (Author)

9781108079891, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 April 2015

622 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 3.5 cm, 0.78 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]