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A historical tour of the Holy Land : a concise history of the land of Israel with photographs and illustrations / by Beryl Ratzer.
LIBRA DS118 .R35 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ratzer, Beryl.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Palestine--History--Pictorial works--Guidebooks.
- Palestine.
- Israel--History--Pictorial works--Guidebooks.
- Israel.
- Palestine--Antiquities--Pictorial works--Guidebooks.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Guidebooks.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and enlarged edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Jerusalem ; New York : Gefen Publishing, 2010.
- Summary:
- You will meet them all, and more, on the pages of A Historical Tour of the Holyland as you tour from event to event in the history of this small piece of land nestled between Egypt and the Fertile Crescent. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chap.1. Prehistory to Middle Bronze Age
- Chap. 2. General Introduction : Hebrew Scriptures
- Chap. 3. Torah : Abraham to Moses
- Chap. 4. Israelite Period
- Chap. 5. Second Temple Period
- Chap. 6. Mishnah and Talmud
- Chap. 7. Early Arab
- Chap. 8. Crusader Period
- Chap. 9. Mameluke Period
- Chap. 10. Ottoman Period
- Chap. 11. British Mandate
- Chap. 12. State of Israel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9652294926
- 9789652294920
- OCLC:
- 642464833
- Publisher Number:
- 99940651843
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