The History of Palestine from the Patriarchal Age to the Present Time (1843 Kitto), book
The History of Palestine from the Patriarchal Age to the Present Time (1843) is a book by John Kitto.
Abstract
A variation on the theme of the history of the Jewish people from creation to the present day that was very popular in the nineteenth century. More particularly, it focuses on the history of Palestine itself, from "the flood" to the present, situating the reader in the historical and contemporary geographical environment as well as the history of the near eastern and classical worlds. The section on the second temple period follows primarily Josephus and 1-4 Maccabees, yet the author interlaces the straightforward history with his own observations, often reflecting his deterministic Christian outlook on the destruction of Jerusalem.
Editions and translations
Published in Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843. First American ed. in Boston, MA: Gould & Lincoln, 1851. Reprinted several times in Edinburgh, Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, between 1851 and 1900. Reissued in Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2002.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Historical and Physical Geography
- Part II. Agriculture and Pasturage
- Part III. Habits of Life
- Part IV. Literature, Science, and Art
- Part V. Institutions
- Book I. From the Deluge till the Death of Joseph
- II. From the Birth till the Death of Moses
- III. From the Death of Moses till the Accession of Saul
- IV. From the Reign of Saul till the Death of Solomon
- V. From the Revolt of the Ten Tribes till the Captivity of the Jews under Nebuchadnezzar
- VI. From the Captivity till the Rise of the Maccabees
- VII. From the Rise of the Maccabees till the End of the Asamonean Dynasty
- VIII. From the Reign of Herod the Great till the Restoration of Syria to the Dominion of the Porte