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This chapter explains the remarkable popularity of Henry Maundrell’s A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter AD 1697 (1703). It argues that Maundrell’s eye-witness reportage of his travels in the Holy Land provided the book’s readers with a storehouse of geographical observations and descriptions of eastern customs with which they could recreate imaginatively the world of the Scriptures. Tracing the book’s use by editors, commentators, translators, and paraphrasts, it argues that Maundrell was most often put to work in defence of the Bible against attacks on its claims to truth. Yet in the hands of Maundrell’s late eighteenth-century German translator, the naturalist and historicist tendencies inherent in his account were brought into sharper focus; ‘sacred geography’ was transformed into a history of biblical culture.
Author(s): Mills S
Editor(s): Whitehouse T; Keeble NH
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Textual Transformations: Purposing and Repurposing Books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Year: 2019
Pages: 210-226
Print publication date: 23/12/2019
Online publication date: 01/01/2020
Acceptance date: 28/11/2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place Published: Oxford
URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808817.003.0012
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198808817.003.0012
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9780198808817