Moslem Ovens, Nazareth--Where a Descendant of David, Christ the Savior of the World, Spent Thirty Years

Name:

Bain, Robert E. M.

Description:

1 photograph; b&w

Provenance:

Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection

Physical Description:

25.3 x 17.6 cm ( 10 x 7 in).

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ovens. A person is in the foreground. A multi-story stone church with ornate windows is in the background.; The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(I.Samuel, xvi:13.)--'Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him (David) in the midst of his brethren: and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.' Christ was of the house and lineage of David, the account of whose anointing by Samuel we have given in the above verse, and we illustrate this Scripture by giving a picture of the Moslem ovens in Nazareth, where Christ grew up. In these ovens all the Moslems of the town have their bread baked. An authority says that 'the ordinary tannut, or oven, is merely a hole in the ground about three feet deep and two feet in diameter, lined with cement, and smoothly polished. It is filled with thorn brushes, dry grass and weeds, or with any kind of fuel that will make a sudden and fierce blaze, and the heat is kept up by throwing in a fresh supply as occasion requires." See 5249BAI/LVi167CAJS (Voyager # 359841).; The photograph was not catalogued by Lazard--it was catalogued at LKCAJS.; Condition: Good

Collection:

Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)