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Fifty-Three Years in Syria / Henry Harris Jessup.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Kiraz Historic Travels Archive ; 1Publisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781607242932
  • 9781463218881
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320
LOC classification:
  • BV3202.J4 .J477 2012
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Prefatory Note -- Contents -- Illustrations -- I. THE PREPARATION - THE CALL TO SERVICE - SAILING FOR SYRIA 1832-1856 -- II. THE FIELD IN 1856 - ITS CONDITION AND PROBLEMS -- III. THE SEVEN PIONEERS OF SYRIA MISSION WORK -- IV. THE ARABIC BIBLE - ITS TRANSLATION AND THE TRANSLATORS (18481865) -- V. ORGANIZATION OF A NATIVE EVANGELICAL CHURCH (1848) -- VI. EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION STONES -- VII. LIFE IN TRIPOLI -- VIII. THE MASSACRE SUMMER OF 1860 -- IX. LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS -- X. AFTER, THE MASSACRES -- XI. FURTHER GROWTH (18621865) -- XII. OBSTACLES TO SUCCESS -- XIII. THE SYRIAN PROTESTANT COLLEGE -- XIV. PROGRESS AND REVIVAL -- XV. FURLOUGHS -- XVI. A CRITICAL YEAR -- XVII. ANTONIUS YANNI - A SKETCH -- XVIII. SUNDRY NOTES AND INCIDENTS
Summary: A massive undertaking, this widely read memoir of an American missionary in Syria and Lebanon during the nineteenth century has become a standard reference. Providing background and color for his own work, Jessup helps the reader understand some of the tragic incidents he faced, but also the optimistic sense of success that would eventually arise from the work he had done. Encompassing the spirit of travel and adventure characterized by the Gorgias Historic Travels in the Cradle of Civilization, this two-volume recollection will find avid readers from missions-minded laity and historians of Syria and Lebanon alike.
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Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Prefatory Note -- Contents -- Illustrations -- I. THE PREPARATION - THE CALL TO SERVICE - SAILING FOR SYRIA 1832-1856 -- II. THE FIELD IN 1856 - ITS CONDITION AND PROBLEMS -- III. THE SEVEN PIONEERS OF SYRIA MISSION WORK -- IV. THE ARABIC BIBLE - ITS TRANSLATION AND THE TRANSLATORS (18481865) -- V. ORGANIZATION OF A NATIVE EVANGELICAL CHURCH (1848) -- VI. EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION STONES -- VII. LIFE IN TRIPOLI -- VIII. THE MASSACRE SUMMER OF 1860 -- IX. LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS -- X. AFTER, THE MASSACRES -- XI. FURTHER GROWTH (18621865) -- XII. OBSTACLES TO SUCCESS -- XIII. THE SYRIAN PROTESTANT COLLEGE -- XIV. PROGRESS AND REVIVAL -- XV. FURLOUGHS -- XVI. A CRITICAL YEAR -- XVII. ANTONIUS YANNI - A SKETCH -- XVIII. SUNDRY NOTES AND INCIDENTS

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A massive undertaking, this widely read memoir of an American missionary in Syria and Lebanon during the nineteenth century has become a standard reference. Providing background and color for his own work, Jessup helps the reader understand some of the tragic incidents he faced, but also the optimistic sense of success that would eventually arise from the work he had done. Encompassing the spirit of travel and adventure characterized by the Gorgias Historic Travels in the Cradle of Civilization, this two-volume recollection will find avid readers from missions-minded laity and historians of Syria and Lebanon alike.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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