Lands of the Bible

1 Lands of the Bible 2 Introduction 3 ***PART ONE: The Geography of Palestine*** 4 Chapter One--General Description of the Country 5 Chapter Two--The Climate, Soil and Productions 6 Chapter Three--The People of Palestine 7 Chapter Four--Modes of Agriculture 8 Chapter Five--Modes of Architecture 9 Chapter Six--Social and Domestic Habits of the People 10 Chapter Seven--State of Education and Religion 11 ***PART TWO: Topography of Palestine*** 12 Chapter One--Jerusalem 13 Chapter Two--Places With Jerusalem as a Center 14 Chapter Three--Places With Hebren as a Center 15 Chapter Four--Places In The Maritime Plain 16 Chapter Five--Places With Shechem as a Center 17 Chapter Six--Places About the Plain of Esdra'Elon 18 Chapter Seven--Places In Galilee 19 Chapter Eight--Places Along the Jordan and Beyond 20 Chapter Nine: The Land and the Book 21 ***PART THREE: Letters of Travel*** 22 Letter One: Leaving Home and Crossing the Atlantic 23 Letter Two: England and France into Italy 24 Letter Three: Rome, Naples, Vesuvius and Pompeii 25 Letter Four: Egypt and the Pyramids 26 Letter Five: Egypt--The Sphinx, the Tombs and the Red Sea 27 Letter Six: The Peninsula of Mount Sinai 28 Letter Seven: From Suez to Jerusalem 29 Letter Eight: Beyond the Jordan 30 Letter Nine: Hot Springs, Plain of Shittim and Return to Jerusalem 31 Letter Ten: Bethlehem, Solomon's Pools, Hebron and En-Gedi 32 Letter Eleven: Beer-Sheba, Edom and Philistia 33 Letter Twelve: Jerusalem to She-chem 34 Letter Thirteen: From Jerusalem to the Lake of Galilee 35 Letter Fourteen: From Tiberias to Tyre 36 Letter Fifteen: From Tyre to Sidon 37 Letter Sixteen: From Sidon to Mount Hermon 38 Letter Seventeen: Damascus 39 Letter Eighteen: From Damascus to Beirut 40 Letter Nineteen: From Beirut to the Seven Churches of Asia 41 Letter Twenty: Sardis, Thyatira, Pergamos and Smyrna 42 Letter Twenty-One: Constantinople and Athens 43 Letter Twenty-Two: Homeward Bound 44 ***APPENDIX: Dr. Vartan's Observations***