Detail from a photograph showing crowds awaiting the "Holy Fire" at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, by the photographic division of the American Colony, early 20th century.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Skeptical Pilgrim: Melville’s Clarel
Weighing in at a colossal 18,000 lines, Herman Melville’s *Clarel* (1876), which centres on the theological musings of a group of pilgrims touring the Holy Land, is not for the faint-hearted. Jeff Wheelwright explores the knot of spiritual dilemmas played out in the poem and its roots in Melville’s trip to the Middle East two decades earlier.
Also appearing in the essay…
Crowds Awaiting the "Holy Fire" at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Detail)
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ca. 1910
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