Works and Customs in Palestine Volume I/2 E-Book

Gustaf Dalman

• Herausgeber: Al Nasher Technical Services
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Anthropology
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 817

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Volume I; Part 2, Spring and Summer, continues dealing with agriculture in general, because the seasons of Palestine could not be described without describing the various farming tasks connected to them, and the religious customs associated with them.

Leseprobe

G. Dalman . Work and Customs in Palestine

I/2

Translation

Nadia Abdulhadi-Sukhtian

Gustaf Dalman

Work and Customs in Palestine

Volume I/2

The Course of the Year and the Course of the Day

Second Half: Spring and Summer

Translated from the German

by

Nadia Abdulhadi-Sukhtian

Originally published in German by C. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh, 1928

Reprinted by Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zürich, New York, 1987

English translation based on the 1987 Georg Olms Verlag edition

Translation copyright © Nadia Abdulhadi-Sukhtian 2013

ISBN: 9789950385-01-6

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Preface to Volume I, Part Two

At the conclusion of this first volume on the evaluation of contemporary Arab Palestine for the knowledge that it can bring to its biblical and post-biblical past, I must add numerous thanks for friendly assistance. First, to the former assistant of the Palestine Institute in Greifswald, Mr. Lic. Rengstorf, now in Tübingen, who read page proofs, checked the Biblical passages and compiled the index of Biblical passages. For important help extended in clarifying astronomical matters, my thanks go, above all, to Mr. Karl Schoch from the Astronomisches Recheninstitut in Berlin-Dahlem, as well as to Studienrat Schloesser in Greifswald. Because I had this help, and that of my son, which was first available for the second half, I ask the reader to refer to pages 506–518 for what was said earlier about astronomy.

Unfortunately, during work on the first half, Jemaiyel’s collection of Arabic proverbs relating to the course of the year, in the 1905 volume of el-Mashriq, was still unknown to me. Only in the second half have I taken it into consideration. Because these popular sayings constitute an important means for understanding the views of the country’s population regarding the course of the year, I have reported the previously unconsidered proverbs in the addenda, together with corrections of some mistakes and printing errors. Because their Lebanese dialect contained things foreign to me, I am grateful to Mr. Elias Haddad, a senior secondary school teacher in Jerusalem, for allowing me to include his answers to a series of questions about the meaning of some expressions and sayings. Also, a number of observations and remarks to the first half that Dr. Brawer in Jerusalem sent me could be included in the addenda.

Greifswald, Palästina-Institut, 15July1928.

G. Dalman