Jerusalem: The Holy CityMargaret Oliphant viewed Jerusalem as the center of Western culture. "The story of Jerusalem is one of the most wonderful in the world, besides being of unparalleled importance to the human race.. And when we descend the course of the ages and come to a still more glorious and wonderful history, it is Jerusalem still which is the scene both of tragedy and triumph, of the greatest and most wonderful life which was ever lived among men," she wrote. In her examination of the city, she focuses on its people and rich history. She recounts the stories of David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Jesus. This book "is addressed only to those for whom the soil of Palestine, so fondly and so long known as the Holy Land, is peopled with the known and loved, the poets and sages and kings with whom we are familiar as with the records of our own lives." MARGARET OLIPHANT (1828-1897) was a prolific, versatile Scottish author who supported her family at a time when women rarely made their living through writing. She wrote almost a hundred novels, dozens of works of non-fiction, almost four hundred articles, and numerous short stories. |
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... natural influences , and records communications between God and man , is necessarily untrue - which is a very large assumption to begin with . The disingenuousness of their methods is a matter which could only be set forth in detail ...
... natural influences , and records communications between God and man , is necessarily untrue - which is a very large assumption to begin with . The disingenuousness of their methods is a matter which could only be set forth in detail ...
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... natural man of high genius and strong emotions in the very circumstances in which David is allowed to have been placed . So natural are they , utter- ances so true of the troubled or the thoughtful mind in the midst of the struggles of ...
... natural man of high genius and strong emotions in the very circumstances in which David is allowed to have been placed . So natural are they , utter- ances so true of the troubled or the thoughtful mind in the midst of the struggles of ...
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... natural defence and strength , stood in an exceptionally strong position , surrounded on three sides by the ridges of protecting hills , a city of the Jebu- sites , which , during all these wild years of war and blood- shed , had ...
... natural defence and strength , stood in an exceptionally strong position , surrounded on three sides by the ridges of protecting hills , a city of the Jebu- sites , which , during all these wild years of war and blood- shed , had ...
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... natural par- tisans and followers of the new king . As it stood there , high on its rocky height , looking over the rounded sum- mit of Moriah to the loftier slopes of the mountain now known to us with all its pathetic and sacred ...
... natural par- tisans and followers of the new king . As it stood there , high on its rocky height , looking over the rounded sum- mit of Moriah to the loftier slopes of the mountain now known to us with all its pathetic and sacred ...
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... natural to the soil , often ex- panding into chambers darker , yet cooler still , wrought out in the rock below or behind . Such , no doubt , was the city which David took , and which he made into the city of David , the stronghold of ...
... natural to the soil , often ex- panding into chambers darker , yet cooler still , wrought out in the rock below or behind . Such , no doubt , was the city which David took , and which he made into the city of David , the stronghold of ...
Contents
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CHAPTER III | 66 |
CHAPTER IV | 142 |
CHAPTER V | 184 |
THE PROPHETS | 225 |
JEREMIAH | 270 |
CHAPTER III | 327 |
PART IIITHE RETURN AND RESTORATION | 354 |
CHAPTER II | 388 |
CHAPTER III | 411 |
THE FINAL TRAGEDY | 430 |
CHAPTER II | 485 |
CHAPTER III | 521 |
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Page 37 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
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