Excerpt from Inner Jerusalem One who has plenty of leisure may select many articles of interest out of the thirty and odd volumes of the Palestine Exploration Fund. The learned will not fail to read Curtiss' Primitive Semitic Religion, and Barton's Semitic Origins, nor the devout the Early Pilgrims' Texts. Other English and American works are of interest to those who travel farther north, while a score of German, and half a dozen French books, are essential to any serious student. Life is not wholly at a standstill, even ...
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Excerpt from Inner Jerusalem One who has plenty of leisure may select many articles of interest out of the thirty and odd volumes of the Palestine Exploration Fund. The learned will not fail to read Curtiss' Primitive Semitic Religion, and Barton's Semitic Origins, nor the devout the Early Pilgrims' Texts. Other English and American works are of interest to those who travel farther north, while a score of German, and half a dozen French books, are essential to any serious student. Life is not wholly at a standstill, even in Jerusalem, and as this book has been passing through the press, certain changes have occurred. Even science has arrived among us, and the German Emperor's Institute for the study of Oriental learning has completed its first year of work; how gratefully appreciated has been testified by the large attendance, not only of the German population, as well as of Special students from the Fatherland, but of European residents of both sexes, and also of Jews and Arabs, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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