Palestinology
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Palestinology (uncountable)
- (now chiefly historical) The academic study of Biblical archaeology in the Holy Land.
- 1991, Daniel Levine, The Birth of the Irgun Zvai Leumi: A Jewish Liberation Movement, page 56:
- In his second year he continued under the same professors and participated in an extensive course in Palestinology with Prof. Samuel Klein.
- 2012, James B. Pritchard, Archaeology and the Old Testament, page 57:
- Robinson became the founder of modern Palestinology. The account of his journey of 1838, Biblical Researches in Palestine, received from the Royal Geographical Society of London their Patron's Gold Medal, […]
- 2020, Emmet Sweeney, The Theban Empire, volume 3, page 176:
- The field of knowledge in which Hori claimed to be an authority was Palestinology. The contents of the missive show that Hori certainly knew his stuff.