Palestinology

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Palestine +‎ -ology.

Noun[edit]

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Palestinology (uncountable)

  1. (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.

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