Distant Views of the Holy Land - Felicity Cobbing
Introduction
Distant Views of the Holy Land - Felicity Cobbing
Felicity Cobbing [+]
The Palestine Exploration Fund
Felicity Cobbing is the Executive and Curator of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
David Jacobson [+]
The Palestine Exploration Fund and University College London
David Jacobson is the Editor of the Palestine Exploration Quarterly and Honourary Research Fellow at University College London. .
Description
Topics include: The Palestine Exploration Fund and the History of Its Picture Archives; Pilgrims and Other Visitors to the Holy Land. An introduction to the book and a description of the archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund on which it is based. (The earliest photographs included date back to the 1850s.) Puts the PEF's activities in the context of the times and provides a general historical survey of the PEF's undertakings and funded explorations in the Levant. Discussion of the nature of pilgrimage throughout the history of the Holy Land and archaeological and documentary evidence for this.