Um viajante alemão na Palestina Otomana

Interessante matéria do jornal The times of Israel (completo, aqui) mostra uma parte da coleção do alemão Gustav Dalman, que foi diretor do Instituto Alemão Protestante de Arqueologia.

Um trecho da matéria:

"Curiously, the board of trustees forbade Dalman –  a theologian who was educated and taught at the Institutum Judaicum in Leipzig – from conducting archaeological excavations in the Holy Land because, though he was head of an archaeological institute, he was not an archaeologist. Instead he purchased antiquities and documented the ethnography of Palestinians in minute detail (in the mistaken belief that they preserved the same traditions as the residents of Judea during Jesus’s time). One of his seven books, “Arbeit und Sitte in Palaestina,” or Work and Custom in Palestine, describes the Arab economy of late Ottoman Palestine in astounding detail, down to the method of manufacturing olive oil and cloth, lighting a fire, and farming practices in each season, all peppered with references to the Bible and Talmud."