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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2013
      11 October 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139383196
      9781108053648
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139383196
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.71kg, 564 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Historical Geography, Middle East History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Historical Geography, Middle East History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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    Published in 1845, this work supports the traditional location of Calvary against the challenges of contemporary scholarship. Since the opening of Palestine to foreign travellers in the 1830s, there had been tremendous interest in locating places described in biblical narrative. The site of the Holy Sepulchre, established by Constantine in the fourth century, allowed no space for a centre of Protestant worship. Some met this challenge by using close study of the Bible and first-century texts alongside topographical evidence to try to dismiss the site's location as inaccurate. In 1841, George Williams (1814–78) had accompanied as chaplain the party of the first Anglican bishopric in Jerusalem, using his time there to gain unrivalled topographic knowledge of the region. In this well-illustrated work, he draws on both physical and literary evidence to conclude that the case for the traditional site is sound, while also surveying the great city's history and character.

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