Identifier: holylandsyria00carp (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and Syria
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Ropes used by generations of drawers of water have furrowed thestones of Jacobs Well where Christ talked with the woman of Samaria.Over it the Greeks have recently erected a stone chapel
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There are left in Palestine less than two hundred Samaritans, whoseHigh Priest guards the ancient scroll of the first five books of the Bible,which they claim is the original version of the Pentateuch BETHLEHEM her to pose for my camera. She did so, carrying thechild into the sun. Near by, in the shadow of the church,was a bearded Syrian in turban and gown, and at first Ithought he might make a good Joseph to pose with myMary. Upon bringing him into the light, however, I foundthat he was a beggar and would not fit into the picture,so I enriched him with a gift of five cents and sent himback to his seat. One part of the Church of the Nativity is controlledby the Armenians and Latins, another by the Greeks,and there are soldiers on hand to keep the worshippers inorder. These two sects fight for the right to take care ofthe birthplace of Jesus, and not long ago a controversyarose over which should clean one of the windows. Boththe Armenians and the Greeks were quarrelling over itwhen the

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