Table of Contents

Foreword / Michael P. Mezzatesta ix
Preface / Dennis M. Campbell xi
David Roberts and the Promised Land in Jewish and Christian Tradition / W. D. Davies 3
The British and American Rediscovery of the Holy Land in the Early Nineteenth Century and David Roberts / Eric M. Meyers 29
David Roberts in Context / Sarah Walker Schroth 39
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia / with original text by the Reverend George Croly, L.L.D. 51

About the Author

W. D. Davies is G. W. Ivey Professor Emeritus at the Divinity School, Duke University.
Eric M. Meyers is a professor with the Department of Religion, Duke University.
Sarah Walker Schroth is a curator at the Duke University Museum of Art.