Israel

Thirty Years Work in the Holy Land – Palestine Exploration Fund

The Palestine Exploration Fund carried out remarkable work mapping and excavating the land of Israel in the 19th Century. This book is provides a summary of their work between 1865 and 1895, which is documented more fully in the Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statements – see here for table of contents. This title is in…

Mount Gerizim

Landscapes of the Bible and Their Story by H.B. Tristram

Today’s free book is H.B. Tristram’s Landscapes of the Bible, a superbly illustrated little book that provides a picture and a short article on around 50 locations mentioned in the Bible. I have extracted most of the images an uploaded them into the gallery shown below. Henry Baker Tristram [1822-1906], Landscapes of the Bible and…