Mapping The Holy Land

Author : Bruno Schelhaas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857729837
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Holy Land written by Bruno Schelhaas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping the Holy Land provides a unique study of the cartography of the Holy Land during the formative period of its development. Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the finest map of the region at the time; and Edward Robinson, founder of modern Palestinology – the authors explore the complex cultural, cartographic and technical processes that shaped and determined the resulting maps of the region. Making full use of newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated in both colour and black and white, Mapping the Holy Land is essential reading for cartographers, historical geographers, historians of mapmaking, and for all those with an interest in the Holy Land and the history of Palestine.

Author : Ariel Tishby
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Land in Maps written by Ariel Tishby and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .".. maps of the Holy Land from a 6th century mosaic from Jordan ... to maps of the recent past"--Jacket.

Author : Bruno Schelhaas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857727850
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Holy Land written by Bruno Schelhaas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the finest map of the region at the time; and Edward Robinson, founder of modern Palestinology - the authors explore the complex cultural, cartographic and technical processes that shaped and determined the resulting maps of the region. Making full use of newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated in both colour and black and white, Mapping the Holy Land is essential reading for cartographers, historical geographers, historians of mapmaking, and for all those with an interest in the Holy Land and the history of Palestine.

Author : P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher : British Library Board
ISBN 13 : 9780712358248
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Maps of the Holy Land written by P. D. A. Harvey and published by British Library Board. This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks in detail at eight regional maps of Palestine that were drawn between the late 12th century and the mid-14th ; with their various versions and derivatives we know them through 23 surviving artifacts.

Author : Pnina Arad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503585277
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Maps of the Holy Land written by Pnina Arad and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Burke O. Long
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253341365
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Holy Land written by Burke O. Long and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Chautauqua Institution in New York, visitors could walk down Palestine Avenue to "Palestine" and a model of Jerusalem, or along Morris Avenue to a scale model of the "Jewish Tabernacle." At the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, a replica of Ottoman Jerusalem covered eleven acres, while today, 300 miles to the southeast, a seven-story-high Christ of the Ozarks stands above a modern re-creation of the Holy Land set in the Arkansas hills."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Neal Asbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954641341
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Holy Land written by Neal Asbury and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning journey through the Holy Land, as told by the rare maps and prints that have long inspired Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrimages. How have people imagined the Holy Land, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to the Modern Era? While Judaism and Islam sunk roots and flourished in the territory of their founders, Christianity came of age in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire. Ever since, Christians have yearned to walk in the footsteps of the Bible, to imagine the route of the Exodus or the places of Jesus's ministry. Muslims, too, longed to see the geographical contours of the ummah, the greater Muslim community. In response, cartographers from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age drew their inspiration from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrimages to depict, with growing confidence, the exotic locations of the Holy Land. Mapping the Holy Land is the first book to tell the thrilling story of these pilgrimages and the incredible prints and maps that their travels spawned. Illustrated with rare, hand-colored maps and engravings throughout and riveting scene-setting history, this remarkable volume from rare maps collector Neal Asbury, CEO of The Legacy Companies and host of Neal Asbury's Made in America, and National Geographic best-selling author Jean-Pierre Isbouts, coauthors of Mapping America, shows how the faithful overcame impossible odds to reach the Holy Land, and dives deep into the historical understanding of these elusive lands from Roman times up to the nineteenth century era of Ottoman Palestine.

Author : Ann Voskamp
Publisher : Knowledge Quest
ISBN 13 : 9781932786330
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Childs Geography written by Ann Voskamp and published by Knowledge Quest. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the geography of the Middle East using biblical references to find various locations.

Author : Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588395987
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem, 1000–1400 written by Barbara Drake Boehm and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center, home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and dissonant voices from many lands, including Persians, Turks, Greeks, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Copts, Ethiopians, Indians, and Europeans, passed in the narrow streets of a city not much larger than midtown Manhattan. Patrons, artists, pilgrims, poets, and scholars from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions focused their attention on the Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings, creating luxury goods for its residents, and praising its merits. This artistic fertility was particularly in evidence between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, notwithstanding often devastating circumstances—from the earthquake of 1033 to the fierce battles of the Crusades. So strong a magnet was Jerusalem that it drew out the creative imagination of even those separated from it by great distance, from as far north as Scandinavia to as far east as present-day China. This publication is the first to define these four centuries as a singularly creative moment in a singularly complex city. Through absorbing essays and incisive discussions of nearly 200 works of art, Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven explores not only the meaning of the city to its many faiths and its importance as a destination for tourists and pilgrims but also the aesthetic strands that enhanced and enlivened the medieval city that served as the crossroads of the known world.

Author : Rehav Rubin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110570653
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraying the Land written by Rehav Rubin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of the Holy Land that were drawn by Jewish scholars from the 11th to the 20th century, and thus fills a significant lacuna both in the history of cartography and in Jewish studies. The maps depict the biblical borders of the Holy Land, the allotments of the tribes, and the forty years of wanderings in the desert. Most of these maps are in Hebrew although there are several in Yiddish, Ladino and in European languages. The book focuses on four aspects: it presents an up-to-date corpus of known maps of various types and genres; it suggests a classification of these maps according to their source, shape and content; it presents and analyses the main topics that were depicted in the maps; and it puts the maps in their historical and cultural contexts, both within the Jewish world and the sphere of European cartography of their time. The book is an innovative contribution to the fields of history of cartography and Jewish studies. It is written for both professional readers and the general public. The Hebrew edition (2014), won the Izhak Ben-Zvi Prize.