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 an book by John Kitto.
Abstract
Kitto’s work is 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, he 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. His sections on the second temple period follow primarily Josephus and 1-4 Maccabees, yet he interlaces the straightforward history with his own observations, often in his deterministic outlook on the destruction of Jerusalem.
Editions and translations
Printings of John Kitto's The History of Palestine from the Patriarchal Age to the Present Time:
1843 (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black)
1851 (Boston: Gould)
1851 (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black)
1851 (Philadelphia: J.E. Potter and Co.)
1852 (Boston: Gould and Lincoln)
1853 (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black)
1859 (Boston: Gould)
1860 (Boston: Gould and Lincoln)
1866 (Philadelphia: Potter)
1883 (New York: R. Worthington)
1899 (New York: P.F. Collier)
1900 (New York: Collier)
2002 (Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Pub.)
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