Travels in the East [Paperback]

Tischendorf's account of his journey to the Middle East in the 1840s is part travel log and part historical study.This work, first published in 1847, is Constantin von Tischendorfs account of his travels in the Middle East at the beginning of the 1840s. The goal of the journey is Jerusalem, but at the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, the biblical scholar makes an extraordinary and controversial discovery.This work, first published in 1847, is Constantin von Tischendorfs account of his travels in the Middle East at the beginning of the 1840s. The goal of the journey is Jerusalem, but at the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, the biblical scholar makes an extraordinary and controversial discovery.This work, first published in 1847, is an account by Constantin von Tischendorf (181574) of his journeying in the Middle East at the beginning of the 1840s. It is part travel log and part account of the Christian history of the area. After encounters with such men as Mehmet Ali and Ibrahim Pasha, he visits the library of the Patriarch of Alexandria. The German biblical scholar then travels to the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, where he makes the extraordinary discovery of a previously unknown fourth-century manuscript, one of the main witnesses to the Septuagint, before reaching the main goal of his long journey - Jerusalem. This lively narrative by a controversial scholar-explorer also entertains the reader with some of the more unexpected elements of his travels, such as an attack by robbers who are routed when he draws his sword.1. Letter from Leghorn; 2. Malta; 3. Alexandria; 4. Cairo; 5. Mehemet Ali; 6. Cairo; 7. Visit to Ibrahim Pasha; 8. Monastic excursions in Cairo; 9. The Patriarch of Alexandria and his walled-up library; 10. The Pyramids; 11. Visit to oriental ladies; 12. The Coptic monasteries in the Libyan sands; 13. Memphis and Heliopolis; 14. Excursion to Old Cairo; 15. Abbots antiquities; 16. Journey to Sinai; 17. From CailÃ