Barbara Kreiger is the author of The Dead Sea: Myth, History, and Politics. She teaches at Dartmouth College.
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Divine Expectations
An American Woman in Nineteenth-Century Palestine
By Barbara Kreiger
Divine Expectations presents the account of Clorinda Minor, a charismatic American Christian woman whose belief in the Second Coming prompted her to leave a comfortable life in Philadelphia in 1851 and take up agriculture in Palestine.