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More Books by Jacob De Haas (Author)Run a Quick Search on "History Of Palestine - The Last Two Thousand Years" by Jacob De Haas to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "History Of Palestine - The Last Two Thousand Years"Browse more products related to "Jacob De Haas"Short DesriptionPREFACE THE compression of the last two thousand years of Pales tinean history within the limits of a single volume, presented numerous difficulties. Though in the introduction the remoter backgrounds have been lightly sketched, the writer avoided the pre-biblical and biblical periods. The archeological discoveries made in recent years and the prospective results of the ex cavations now in process, will have to be evaluated before a new and useful content of political, social and economic facts can be poured into the fixed outline established by the Bible and Josephus, Because no more than current comment may be applied to history while in the making, the temptation has been withstood to analyze and summarize the wealth of material accumulated since Palestine came under the British mandate. The literature on Palestine in all languages, is extremely numerous. In some respects the detailed information available is almost overwhelming in its minutiae. For some interesting periods, however, a small nugget of fact is the only reward for the patient sifting of tons of verbal ore Much that has been written about Palestine has been inspired by the reverent desire to establish the literal accuracy of biblical passages, whether they describe past conditions or presage the future. Many authors have speculated in the interest of some pet theory, and as many have yielded to the enticement of archeological dis putation. Hopeful of its future the author in 1900 sought for a useful, balanced history of Palestine. Kittos four hundred and twenty-six interesting pages contained less than, three pages devoted to all that happened in Palestine since 1291, Other periods were treated even more scantily. Munk, though a little kinder to the sixteenth century, was wholly fugitive in his vii viii PREFACE treatment of other periods. Episodic histories there were aplenty, but they began and ended abruptly Even painstaking archeologists cultivated this disjunctive and intermittent atti tude In all books treating of the country, the great blanks were between the third century and the Crusades, and from the fall of the Latin Kingdom to present times This treatment created a well-defined state of mind towards everything Pales tinean. A single illustration will serve In the nineteenth cen tury, a period of intense investigation, Palestine was largely treeless, its rocks exposed, and the land poorly cultivated To the pious this was evidence of the fulfillment of a curse. To the sceptic it was proof that the biblical writers exaggerated the land was infertile, and the country hopeless A third group accepted the Bible as accurate but speculated on climatic changes, and the drying up of water courses to explain the difference between the past and the present. The author had no preconceived theories To fill a blank in his own knowledge he devoted the leisure of thirty years to patient research and a careful study of the topography and his toric sites. The Palestine thus discovered differs materially from the accepted picture That the dry southland of Palestine once blossomed and sustained a considerable population, that Trans-Jordan is a ruin wrought by the Tartar horde, that just one hundred years ago Palestine had a period of prosperity will surprise the majority of readers... Customer Reviews for "History Of Palestine - The Last Two Thousand Years (Paperback)" by Jacob De Haas (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Africa - Central Bestsellers
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