Edward Robinson Writes to His Publisher to Inquire About His "Biblical Researches in Palestine"

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Edward Robinson Writes to His Publisher to Inquire About His "Biblical Researches in Palestine"

1840

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When the American theologian Edward Robinson traveled to the Holy Land in 1837 and 1838, his intent was to identify archeological ruins associated with events in the Judeo-Christian Bible; it was not to create the modern fields of biblical geography, or biblical archeology, or even to write a monumental three-book work about his efforts called Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea. But such were the results of his archaeological sojourn, albeit as of the writing of this letter, they were a year way. Here he asks his British publisher, from his (temporary) home in London how he is getting on with his “Manuscript of Palestine.” He would, he explains, like to travel home to America soon.

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Robinson, Edward, 1794-1863

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Edward Robinson was born in Southington, Connecticut, and raised on a farm. He attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York and graduated in 1816. Robinson went to Europe to study ancient languages, largely in Halle and Berlin (1826–30). While in Halle, in 1828 he married the German writer Therese Albertine Luise. After the couple returned to the United States, Robinson was appointed professor extraordinary of sacred literature at Andover Theological Seminary (1830–1833). Robinson founded the ...