Memoir of Rev. Henry Lobdell, M.D., late Missionary of the American Board at Mosul: Including the Early History of the Assyrian Mission.
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Link Singerman ID: supp1586
Year: 1859
Entry: Tyler, William Seymour. Memoir of Rev. Henry Lobdell, M.D., late Missionary of the American Board at Mosul: Including the Early History of the Assyrian Mission. ... New York: American Tract Society, [c1859]. 414 p.
Author/Editor: William Seymour Tyler
Location: New York, NY
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Memoir of Rev. Henry Lobdell, M.D., late Missionary of the American Board at Mosul: Including the Early History of the Assyrian Mission.
Printer/Publisher: American Tract Society
Language: English
Notes: The narrative includes efforts to proselytize among the Jews of Kurdistan. There is a reference to the reputed birthplace of Judas Iscariot and discussion of the sites, according to local legend, of the tombs of the Prophets Jonah, Daniel, Ezekiel, and Nahum. Rev. Lobdell meets up with [John Henry] Brühl, a converted German Jew and missionary sent by London Jews’ Society to Mesopotamia, in chap. 18. A perfect copy has a frontispiece of the author.