The Biblical Review (Volume 4 ) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1919. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... By Rev. Samuel M. Zwemer, D.D., Editor, The Moslem World Egypt is a Bible land to which there are more than five hundred references in the Old and New Testaments. Christ found refuge in Egypt. The early church there had its martyrs and missionaries. It is a land of surpassing interest to the archeologist, the tourist, and the missionary. During the war it proved of strategic importance to the Allies. It has always been the key to North Africa and is the keystone in the arch of Moslem lands from Tangier to Teheran. Its importance after the war can only be surmised from the action of the Peace Conference. Cairo is the intellectual capital of the Moslem world. Egypt has always been a land of religious conviction, disputes, and fanatic devotion. One may read the religious character of the Egyptian not only in Eber's Bride of the Nile and Kingsley's Hypatia, but also in the faces of the students today at El Azhar, the Moslem university, and the type of the religious devotee remains constant. Almost from the beginning of her history Egypt has been under foreign influence, overrun in turn by Ethiopian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, and Turk. These nations, one after the other, have ruled as masters, and the people in consequence have developed some of the characteristics of a servile race. Only since the British occupation has Egypt begun to find herself. In the words of a Moslem sheikh who wrote to Lord Cromer in 1906: He must be blind who does not see what the English have wrought in Egypt; the gates of justice stand open to the poor; the streams flow through the land and are not stopped by order of the strong; the poor man is lifted up and the rich man pulled down; the hand of the oppressor and the briber is struck when outstretched to do evil. Our eyes see these thi...