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)

9781108079907, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 April 2015

702 pages, 1 map
21.7 x 14 x 4.4 cm, 0.9 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 3 covers Robinson's 1852 itinerary through Beirut, Galilee, Samaria, Jerusalem and Damascus, again with detailed accounts of topography, history and architecture.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. From Beirut through Galilee to Akka
3. From Akka through Galilee and Samaria to Jerusalem
4. Jerusalem, incidents and observations
5. Jerusalem, topography and antiquities
6. Excursions from Jerusalem
7. From Jerusalem to Beisan
8. From Beisan to Hasbeiya
9. From Hasbeiya to Banias and back
10. From Hasbeiya to Damascus
11. From Damascus to Baalbek
12. From Baalbek by Ribleh to El-Husn
13. From El-Husn by way of the Cedars to Beirut
Notes
Itinerary
Index.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]