Travels in the East
Travels in the East
W. E. Shuckard
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GBPThis 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.
Product details
June 2010Paperback
9781108014793
308 pages
216 × 140 × 18 mm
0.39kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
