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Title
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Britain Colonial Mapping of Western Palestine in the Ottoman period
Description
An account of the resource
The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) of Great Britain conducted an extensive survey of Western Palestine from 1872-1877, during the Ottoman period. While the fund was headed by religious figures and academics, there was also involvement from the British government. Essentially, the religious and academic associations of the fund may have served as a front to allow the British government to collect intelligence on the region. For example, the British Foreign Office had documented involvement in the production and funding of the survey project, which increased with the Russo-Turkian War (1877-78). This survey was the most detailed and technologically advanced to date and was ultimately employed by the British in their invasion of Palestine in WWI.
In addition to its attention to topographic detail, this mapping project is notable for its area of focus. Unlike other maps produced by Western colonial powers at the time, such as France and Germany, this map focuses exclusively on an area west of the Jordan river. Uncannily, its borders resemble those of the future British Mandate (1920-1948). The survey is also careful to include the significant holy sites of the New Testament.
After the maps production, the British Foreign Office required that the PEF delay the publication of the maps for a year to control the dispersal of sensitive intelligence information.
Thus, these maps should be evaluated both as products of academic and religious scholarship and as tools in the British colonial enterprise.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Detailed geographical survey of Western Palestine with additional layers depicting religious holy sites, Arabic places
Historical Map
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Cartographer
Conder, C.R. (Claude Reignier)
Kitchener, H.R. (Horatio Herbert)
Engraver
Ordinance Survey Office
Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Survey Map
Format notes
Scale 3/8 inch to one mile of 1:168,960.
Digital Repository
David Rumsey Collection
Call Number
6930.058
URL or Unique Identifier
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~241026~5512449:Composite--Western-Palestine-Natura?sort=pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%2Cpub_date&qvq=q:talmud;sort:pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%2Cpub_date;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=57&trs=58
Date Depicted
1872-1877 (and/or New Testament Era sites)
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Title
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Western Palestine Illustrating the New Testament, also the Talmud and Josephus.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Palestine Exploration Fund
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1880
Language
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English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Composite Map
Subject
The topic of the resource
At first glance, this map appears 'modern' in all but the names of places, depicting a geographical features that are identical to those of the other pieces in the Palestine collection. However, this map layer presents New Testament Era place names superimposed over the 1870 map. The cartographer has pulled geographic information from the Talmud and Josephus, in addition to the New Testament to illustrate the layout of the "Land of Judea" after the birth of Jesus.
It is part of a collection of British Survey maps, authored by the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1880. This survey collection was the dominant source of information for the British military invasion of Palestine in WWI and continued to have importance for scientific and ethnographic research thereafter.
This map layer highlights how the survey was in fact designed by the PEF to encompass historic christian religious sites. As a contrast, one might compare this map layer with the Old Testament map layer which does not succeed to cover certain areas depicted in the Old Testament because of the survey’s limits. This aids in the conclusion that the PEF survey was intended for archeological, academic and religious use.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
The region of Ottoman-era Palestine west of the Jordan River
biblical place names
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Judea
messianic
mountain range
Samaria
topography lines
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Map layer
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Title
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Transportation routes
Description
An account of the resource
Railways and flight routes are marked with pencil; railways are marked with hatched lines and flight paths are marked with dotted lines.
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mountain range
terrain
Topography
waterways