The Holy Land: Yesterday and Today
Category: Books,History,World
The Holy Land: Yesterday and Today Details
About the Author DAVID ROBERTS (1796–1864) was one of the most acclaimed landscape painters of his time. He made an extended trip to Egypt and the Holy Land in 1838–39, during which he made the series of drawings that brought him lasting fame Read more
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gives an exact picture of what the Holy Land was like 180 years ago. And it was not full of "Palestinians"....there were some Bedouin, but the land was largely a abandoned desert. It's instructive to have this as a reference work in the face of all the propaganda that says that the Zionists in the late 1800s took over an inhabited land and pushed its people out. In fact, the Turkish absentee landlords were only to happy to sell or lease their empty lands to these immigrant Jews from Europe, who, like Utah's Mormons in the 1840s, immediately began making the desert to bloom into what it is today.