Military Road, Damascus--Settled by Uz, the Son or Arali, and Said by the Arabian Historian, Mugir-ed-din-el-Hambeli, to Have Once Been the Property of Job

Name:

Bain, Robert E. M.

Description:

1 photograph; b&w

Provenance:

Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection

Physical Description:

25.4 x 17.5 cm ( 10 x 6.875 in).

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

A pool of water and a giant tree. A wall and a building are in the background.; The photograph is printed in a book with a typed description. The description: "(Job, vi:1.)--Wetzstein, Oliphant thinks, clearly shows that the land of Uz, mentioned in Jeremiah, xxv:20, 'And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz,' cannot refer to Edom, but must have reference to a region near Damascus. While Josephus, in his Antiquities (i:6-4), states that the Arameans, whom the Greeks called the Syrians, were descended from Aram. Uz, who was a son of Aram settled Trachonitis and Damascus. The historian, Mugir-ed-din-el-Hambeli, in the chapter on the legends of the prophet, says: 'Job came from El-Es Uz (?), and the Damascene province of Batanæa, which included Hauran, was his property.' And Dr. Porter, one of the contributors to this Self-Interpreting Bible, says that he visited a town in the Hauran whose people claimed that Job was the king of Batanæa. We give as illustrating this a view of the Military Road in Damascus."; The photograph was not catalogued by Lazard--it was catalogued at LKCAJS.; Condition: Good

Collection:

Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)