------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Full-page illustrations have also been moved to a paragraph break and are represented by their captions. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. [Illustration: A SILOAM WOMAN, HER INFANT ON HER BACK AND PRODUCE ON HER HEAD] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BIBLE LANDS AND PEOPLES—MODERN BEING A COMPANION VOLUME TO “THE ORIENT IN BIBLE TIMES” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE AN ENLARGED EDITION OF “THE PEASANTRY OF PALESTINE, LIFE, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE VILLAGE” BY ELIHU GRANT PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE IN HAVERFORD COLLEGE _ILLUSTRATED_ [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY ELIHU GRANT COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. TO THE MEMORY OF HINCKLEY GILBERT MITCHELL PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION We thought that Palestine had passed into ancient history, but it has been a centre of modern events. No country in the world has a more continuously interesting and profitable story. Its present population is made of sturdy and able people. Three great religions call it Holy Land. It presents to view three distinct types of human society, the desert nomad who dwells in the tented encampment, the peasant villager who reminds us in so many ways of the people of the Bible, and the more foreign looking and mingled folk of the large cities. We have picked the village life as most suggestive of the quaint customs of the past. It has been gratifying to have those who know this life best, including villagers themselves, praise the accuracy and sympathy of the descriptions. The volume has not been compiled from books, but drawn from life. An additional chapter seeks to sum present conditions.