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Milman’s History of the Jews: a Real Place with Real People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Alistair Mason
Alistair Mason*
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University of Leeds
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For English-speaking Protestants in the early nineteenth century, the Holy Land lived in the Bible. In that Land God had done his mighty works, and every name recalled an episode in the history of salvation. Its placenames were as real and resonant to believers as those of their own home district. Chapel-names like Mizpah and Shiloh were not just ‘somewhere in the Old Testament’, as they are to modern readers. Filtered through the anachronism of its readers’ imaginations, and haloed with devotion, the Holy Land was indeed holy.

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Research Article
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Studies in Church History , Volume 36: The Holy Land, Holy Lands, and Christian History , 2000 , pp. 319 - 328
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 2000

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7 Quoted in Dean Stanley’s obituary, Macmillan’s Magazine, June 1869, p. 180.

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10 The parallel columns are in an Appendix to the 1830 third volume of the History of the Jews. Milman had misgivings about even doing this (Milman, Henry Hart Milman, pp. 87-8.)

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