EL-BIREH (FROM THE SOUTH)
EL-BIREH (FROM THE SOUTH)
EL-BIREH (FROM THE SOUTH)
198. In the Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly for July, 1906, page 163, Dr. E. W. G. Masterman, of Jerusalem, writes of unusual weather in May preceding. Speaking of a severe hail-storm in Urṭâs and Bethlehem, he quotes the local report among the peasantry which was that “each hailstone was the size of a pigeon’s egg and had St. George’s image pictured on it.”
198. In the Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly for July, 1906, page 163, Dr. E. W. G. Masterman, of Jerusalem, writes of unusual weather in May preceding. Speaking of a severe hail-storm in Urṭâs and Bethlehem, he quotes the local report among the peasantry which was that “each hailstone was the size of a pigeon’s egg and had St. George’s image pictured on it.”
199. Compare with the exclamation of this Christian, the Moslem attribution of uniqueness to God in the well-known formula.
199. Compare with the exclamation of this Christian, the Moslem attribution of uniqueness to God in the well-known formula.
200. See page115.
200. See page115.