Buried Cities and Bible Countries
by George St. Clair
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About this eBook
- Author
- George St. Clair
- Credits
- E-text prepared by MFR, Karin Spence, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Palestine -- Description and travel
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 65497
- Release Date
- June 4, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.BURIED CITIES AND BIBLE COUNTRIES
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.PREFACE.
- 6.Untitled
- 7.CHAPTER I. EGYPT AND THE BIBLE. — I. The Rosetta Stone: Decipherment of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs. — 2. Kings and Dynasties of Egypt. — 3. The Finding of the Mummies. — 4. Egyptians in Palestine before the Exodus. — The Hittites. — 5. Semites in Egypt before the Oppression. — 6. Israel in Egypt. — 7. Buried Cities of the East—Preliminary. — 8. Biblical Sites in Egypt. — 9. The Route of the Exodus. — 10. The Wilderness Wanderings.
- 8.CHAPTER II. PALESTINE. — 1. Palestine generally. — 2. Physical Features of Palestine. — 3. The Dead Sea, Salt Sea, or Sea of Lot. — 4. The Cities of the Plain. — 5. “ Lot’s Wife. ” — 6. The Natural History of Palestine, as dependent on its Physical Geography. — 7. The Topographical Survey of Western Palestine. — 8. Israel’s Wars and Worship, considered in connection with the Physical Features of the Country. — The Wars. — 9. Sacred Sites of the Hebrews. — 10. The Method of the Survey, and Incidents of the Work. — 11. The East of Jordan.
- 9.CHAPTER III. JERUSALEM. — 1. The City as it is. — 2. The Sieges of Jerusalem, and the Fortunes of its Walls. — 3. Excavations at Jerusalem. — 4. Jerusalem as it was. — 5. The Walls and Gates of the City. — 6. Incidents of the History better realised.
- 10.CHAPTER IV. GOSPEL HISTORY IN THE LIGHT OF PALESTINE EXPLORATION. — 1. Christ in the Provinces. — 2. Christ in the Capital.
- 11.CHAPTER V. MESOPOTAMIA AND THE BIBLE. — 1. Assyria. — 2. Babylonia. — 3. How the Writings were Read.
- 12.THE VANDALISM OF THE ORIENTALS. — FOOTNOTES:
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