Imagining the Holy Land
| Author | : Burke O. Long |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0253341361 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780253341365 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Imagining the Holy Land by : Burke O. Long
Download or read book Imagining the Holy Land written by Burke O. Long and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Chautauqua Institution in New York, visitors could walk down Palestine Avenue to "Palestine" and a model of Jerusalem, or along Morris Avenue to a scale model of the "Jewish Tabernacle." At the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, a replica of Ottoman Jerusalem covered eleven acres, while today, 300 miles to the southeast, a seven-story-high Christ of the Ozarks stands above a modern re-creation of the Holy Land set in the Arkansas hills."--BOOK JACKET.
