Sacred Landscape The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948

Name: Sacred Landscape The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948
Price: 19.77 USD
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ISBN: 9780520234222

ISBN-10: 0520234227

ISBN-13: 9780520234222

Edition: 2000

Authors: Meron Benvenisti, Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta

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As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's ancestral homeland. These experiences in Benvenisti's youth are central to this book, and the story that he tells helps explain how during this century an Arab landscape, physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state. Benvenisti first discusses the process by which new Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9,000 natural features, villages, and ruins in Eretz Israel/Palestine (his name for the Holy Land,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/6/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 382
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.02" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English