Attempting to Bring the Gospel Home: Scottish Missions to Palestine, 1839-1917 [Hardcover]

Michael Marten (Author)

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Hardcover: 300 pages
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies; 1 edition (Nov 17 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1850439834
ISBN-13: 978-1850439837
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 2.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 540 g

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This book examines the role of the Scottish churches as part of the British imperial enterprise in the Middle East. These missions had as their stated aim the conversion of Jews to Protestantism, but also attempted to "convert" other Christians and Muslims. Michael Marten dicusses the missions to Damascus, Aleppo, Tiberias, Safad, Hebron and Jaffa. He describes the three main methods of the missionaries' work--confrontation, education and medicine--as well as the ways in which these were communicated to their supporting constituency in Scotland.

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Michael Marten was formerly a graduate student in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, and now teaches at SOAS.

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First Sentence
The Scottish Presbyterian involvement in Palestine began with the Church of Scotland General Assembly in 1838; prior to this there had been limited interest in Jewish mission, but 'the subject of the Jews had ... recently begun to awaken attention among the faithful servants of God in the Church of Scotland'.1 Read the first page

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