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The blessed river : selected travel accounts of the Jordan River / Jehuda Rheinhartz and Yaacov Shavit ; translated by Naftali Greenwood ; edited by Mark Elliott Shapiro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reinharz, Jehuda lat, author.
- Shaviṭ, Yaʻaḳov, 1944- lat, author.
- Language:
- English
- French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
- Subjects (All):
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Eretz Israel--History--lat.
- Jordan River--Description and travel.
- Jordan River.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations, PDF
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Jerusalem : The Hebrew University Magnes Press, [2024]
- System Details:
- Mode of access World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "The thirteenth-century Franciscan pilgrim Philip of Savona wrote that “the whole Trinity has declared that river [Jordan] to be fortunate and most worthy, above which the Father was heard, the Holy Spirit was seen in the form of a dove, and the Son was baptized in human nature.” Since the Middle Ages, Christian pilgrims from many countries have traveled to the Holy Land in order to immerse themselves in the Jordan River and to take some of its water back to their homelands. Hundreds described their experiences from the blessed river, and in the nineteenth century also began exploring and documenting its history. This volume contains a selection of the accounts of pilgrims and tourists, who describe their impressions, expectations, and sometimes also their disappointments when encountering the Jordan River. It includes descriptions of pilgrims from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, amongst them well-known authors such as Mark Twain, François-René de Chateaubriand and Gustave Flaubert. The book also contains chapters on the geography of the Jordan River, historical events associated with it, and the literature that developed around it." -- Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Front cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: The River Jordan in History
- Chapter 2: Pilgrimage to the Jordan and "Sacred Geography"
- Felix Fabri: "The Dignity and Praise of the Holy Jordan"
- Chapter 3: Theater of Miracles
- François-René de Chateaubri and: “God spoke of these shores”
- Alphonse de Lamartine: “Once a Royal Dream”
- Gustave Flaubert: “The Jordan is an adder that creeps on its belly”
- Chapter 4: A "Stream Divine"?
- Pierre Loti: “White fog of the Jordan”
- Mark Twain: A dream-river in “dream-land”
- William Cowper Prime: “Like the flow of a river that knew its own might and majesty”
- Alexander William Kinglake: “The moody longing for Eastern travel”
- J. Ross Browne: “A creek in the back-woods of America”
- Charles Wyllys Elliott: “No river at all”
- John Lloyd Stephens: “It is a small, broken, and muddy stream”
- Alfred Charles Smith: “To all practical purposes it is almost useless”
- Chapter 5: The Age of Expeditions
- Henry Baker Tristram: “The contrast between the romantic birth of that mysterious stream… and its ignoble, sewer-like exit into its final home”
- Charles Warren: “All making up a picture never to be effaced from the eye’s memory”
- William Francis Lynch: “Its pathway cheered with songs of birds”
- The Last Sailing
- Philip J. Baldensperger: “The swift currentof the Jordan”
- Epilogue Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789657854099
- 9657854091
- OCLC:
- 1492221547
- Publisher Number:
- 004504810165 danacode print version
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