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Divine expectations : an American woman in 19th-century Palestine / Barbara Kreiger with Shalom Goldman.
Van Pelt Library BV3202.M55 D58 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kreiger, Barbara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minor, Clorinda, 1806-1855.
- Minor, Clorinda.
- Missionaries--Palestine--Biography.
- Missionaries.
- Adventists--Palestine--Biography.
- Adventists.
- Missionaries--United States--Biography.
- United States.
- Adventists--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- Barbara Kreiger's intriguing narrative presents the account of Clorinda Minor, a charismatic American Christian woman whose belief in the Second Coming prompted her to leave a comfortable life in Philadelphia in 1851 and take up agriculture in Palestine.
- After her disappointment in a failed prophecy that the End of Days would take place in October 1844, Mrs. Minor determined that the Holy Land was not yet adequately prepared for such an event and decided that it would be her mission to teach the poverty-stricken Jews of Palestine to work the soil. In this very American story Mrs. Minor, like so many other pioneers of her day, looked to the land as her future.
- Even as her mission was distinctly religious, her daily efforts were in the social realm. And although her work brought Jews and Arabs together, and her small farm was a unique settlement where Christians, Muslims, and Jews labored alongside one another, the events detailed in Divine Expectations had dramatic and tragic diplomatic and international repercussions.
- With the deft touch of a novelist, Barbara Kreiger weaves the little-known story of Clorinda Minor into the larger context of the region and its history, presenting it in its charming eccentricity and its gripping reality.
- Contents:
- Part I Artas
- 1 Clorinda Minor, and Arrivals in Palestine 13
- 2 The Battle for Artas 55
- Part II Jaffa
- 3 The Move to Jaffa 109
- 4 The Aftermath 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0821412949
- 0821412957
- OCLC:
- 41482190
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