Two Americans withing the gates : the story of Levi Parsons and Pliny Fisk in Jerusalem / by Eli Mizrachi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mizrachi, Eli.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parsons, Levi, 1792-1822.

Parsons, Levi.

Fisk, Pliny, 1792-1825.

Fisk, Pliny.

Missionaries--Palestine--Biography.

Missionaries.

Missionaries--United States--Biography.

Missions to Jews--Jerusalem.

Missions to Jews.

Jews--Restoration.

Jews.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism.

Christianity.

Interfaith relations.

Middle East--Jerusalem.

Middle East--Palestine.

United States.

Missionaries--Eretz Israel--Biography.

Missions to Jews--Israel--Jerusalem.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Physical Description:

393 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Hagerstown, MD : McDougal Pub. Co., ©1995.

Summary:

In 1818 the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (established in 1810) resolved to establish a mission in the Holy Land by appointing Levi Parsons and Pliny Fisk to the task. They were motivated by messianic premillenialist view of the Jews and their role in history. Their objectives were to work with the old Eastern Churches and among Jews and Muslims. From their base in Smyrna, Parsons proceeded to Jerusalem to ascertain the prospects there, but after a few months fell ill and died in Alexandria. Fisk, with another missionary, Jonas King, travelled to Palestine and began missionary activity there, but he too died soon after, in 1925.

Contents:

The making of a missionary

Laying the foundations of missionary activity

Carrying on the missionary vision

Within thy gates, O Jerusalem

The last days of Pliny Fisk.

Notes:

"Special limited edition."

Includes index.

ISBN:

1884369235

9781884369230

1884369251

9781884369254

OCLC:

54063869