The Language of Canaan

Lowance, Mason I.

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Section: Image Vs Reality: the Protestant Rediscovery Of Jerusalemmentioning

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“…Jerusalem was imagined as an ideal realm ± the seat of wisdom and divine majesty. It was no accident that as the English, Dutch and Germans established colonial enclaves in North America, Africa and the Paci®c, the use of names such as`Salem',`New Canaan' and`Zion' multiplied on the colonists' maps (Lowance 1980). How great the shock, then, in 1798±9, in the wake of Napoleon's disastrously unsuccessful invasion of Egypt and Palestine, when Protestant travellers and scholars drawn to the Middle East by a de facto British occupation of Egypt first encountered Jerusalem's contemporary reality (Silberman 1982: 18±27).…”

Section: Image Vs Reality: the Protestant Rediscovery Of Jerusalemmentioning

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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem: archaeology, religious commemoration and nationalism in a disputed city, 1801–2001

Silberman¹

2001

Nations and Nationalism

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The pace and agenda of archaeology in Jerusalem has always been influenced by unspoken ideological and political factors. This article attempts to trace the ideological and political contexts in which archaeological exploration and interpretation has been carried out during the last 200 years. Beginning with a brief description of the Solomonic obsessions of the late antique and medieval rulers of Jerusalem, the article describes how, over the centuries, the identification of certain monuments with the biblical events and personalities had far‐reaching effects on the character of subsequent archaeological work. The article then traces the course of modern archaeological exploration in the city from the Late Ottoman Period through the end of the twentieth century. The article concludes with an examination and analysis of the politics of archaeology in Jerusalem in the current Israeli–Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem's presumed final status in a peace settlement.

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Section: Image Vs Reality: the Protestant Rediscovery Of Jerusalemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Image Vs Reality: the Protestant Rediscovery Of Jerusalemmentioning

confidence: 99%