IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 722: Holy-Land Landscape in Descriptions of Pilgrims of the Three Religions: Perception, Reality, and Imagination
Tuesday 8 July 2008, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Faculty of Humanities & Social Studies, Tel Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee |
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Organiser: | Tziona Grossmark, Faculty of Humanities & Social Studies, Tel Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee |
Moderator/Chair: | Haim Goren, Department of Multi-Disciplinary Studies, Tel Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee |
Paper 722-a | The Desert in Talmudic Travellers' Tales: Reality and Imagination (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
Paper 722-b | Ottheinrich's Pilgrimage Tapestries: Natural, Cultural, and Religious Landscapes of 16th-Century Palestine (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Religious Life |
Paper 722-c | Hae Sunt Mansiones: Rabbinic Journey to Galilee Settlements (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Local History |
Abstract | Pilgrimage to the Holy Land was an early phenomenon of Judaism, Christian pilgrimage started at the beginning of the Byzantine period. Later in early medieval period the first Muslim travelers wrote and described their voyages to the Holy Land. |