Travels in the East

Tischendorf's account of his journey to the Middle East in the 1840s is part travel log and part historical study.

Constantin von Tischendorf (Author), W. E. Shuckard (Translated by)

9781108014793, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 June 2010

308 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.39 kg

This work, first published in 1847, is an account by Constantin von Tischendorf (1815–74) of his journeying in the Middle East at the beginning of the 1840s. It is part travel log and part account of the Christian history of the area. After encounters with such men as Mehmet Ali and Ibrahim Pasha, he visits the library of the Patriarch of Alexandria. The German biblical scholar then travels to the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, where he makes the extraordinary discovery of a previously unknown fourth-century manuscript, one of the main witnesses to the Septuagint, before reaching the main goal of his long journey - Jerusalem. This lively narrative by a controversial scholar-explorer also entertains the reader with some of the more unexpected elements of his travels, such as an attack by robbers who are routed when he draws his sword.

1. Letter from Leghorn
2. Malta
3. Alexandria
4. Cairo
5. Mehemet Ali
6. Cairo
7. Visit to Ibrahim Pasha
8. Monastic excursions in Cairo
9. The Patriarch of Alexandria and his walled-up library
10. The Pyramids
11. Visit to oriental ladies
12. The Coptic monasteries in the Libyan sands
13. Memphis and Heliopolis
14. Excursion to Old Cairo
15. Abbots antiquities
16. Journey to Sinai
17. From Cairo to Suez
18. Suez
19. Passage of the Israelites across the Red Sea
20. From Ayin Musa to Sinai
21. Mount Sinai and its monastery
22. Whitsun morning on Mount Sinai
23. The history of the monastery
24. Departure from Sinai
25. Return from Sinai to Cairo
26. Journey to Jerusalem
27. Arrival at Jerusalem
28. Jerusalem
29. The Holy Sepulchre
30. The inhabitants of Jerusalem
31. The Anglican bishopric at Jerusalem
32. Monasteries in and about Jerusalem
33. The seventh Sunday after Trinity
34. Demands on our faith at Jerusalem
35. Other reminiscences of ancient Jerusalem
36. Bethlehem
37. Bethany
38. Epistle to an illustrious patroness upon my Biblico-critical researches
39. From Jerusalem to Nazareth (by way of Samaria and Shechem)
40. Nazareth, Tabor, the Lake Genezareth
41. Mount Carmel
42. St. Jean d'Acre, Beyrout, Smyrna
43. Excursion to Patmos by way of Ephesus
44. Voyage to Constantinople
45. A ride through Constantinople
46. The libraries
46. Farewell to Constantinople
47. Voyage to Greece.

Subject Areas: Archaeology by period / region [HDD]