A Pilgrimage to Palestine

A Pilgrimage to Palestine showed a thoughtful writer. I want to comment about his construing the Biblical text’s narrative to create his own pilgrimage text. In the process, I’ll suggest that he clearly knows his own purpose for writing his A Pilgrimage to Palestine and that he pictures a certain type of audience as reading his text. Shaping the structure of his own text is an uncomplicated Biblical narrative as interpreted by an early 20th century version of the those Biblical narratives. Furthermore, he is an insightful observer in linking sights of 1920’s Palestine to those Biblical narratives. Finally, he links those Biblical narratives to powerfully passionate moral judgments and messages relevant to his contemporary society even if we might both admire, and find questionable, some of those judgments today.