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Excerpt from Orientalisms in Bible Lands: Giving Light From Customs, Habits, Manners, Imagery, Thought and Life in the East for Bible Students
Once it was common to speak of the unchanging East, as scholars and explorers were wont to do in the last generation. For centuries there was indeed a persistence of the same man ners and customs, partly due to the physical characteristics of the lands of the East, and partly to the indisposition of the people for change. That day has passed.
There is no portion of the globe where such marvelous and radical changes are going on to-day as in the Orient. In Jerusalem, in Joppa, and in Damascus one sees the railway locomotive, hears the click Of the telegraph, and may talk to his distant neighbor through the telephone. Soon it will be im possible for a traveler to discover Simple native Oriental Life. Even now it is difficult to find a village or people in any Bible land SO remote as to be free from the in?uences of Western life, which are sweeping through all Oriental countries. Native Oriental customs are already modified by these in?uences to an extent little suspected by many even Of the Orientals themselves.
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Once it was common to speak of the unchanging East, as scholars and explorers were wont to do in the last generation. For centuries there was indeed a persistence of the same man ners and customs, partly due to the physical characteristics of the lands of the East, and partly to the indisposition of the people for change. That day has passed.
There is no portion of the globe where such marvelous and radical changes are going on to-day as in the Orient. In Jerusalem, in Joppa, and in Damascus one sees the railway locomotive, hears the click Of the telegraph, and may talk to his distant neighbor through the telephone. Soon it will be im possible for a traveler to discover Simple native Oriental Life. Even now it is difficult to find a village or people in any Bible land SO remote as to be free from the in?uences of Western life, which are sweeping through all Oriental countries. Native Oriental customs are already modified by these in?uences to an extent little suspected by many even Of the Orientals themselves.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Language - English
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Edwin Wilbur Rice
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ISBN - 9780266564324
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Page Count - 358
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Edwin Wilbur Rice
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ISBN - 9781331856207
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Page Count - 360
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