The Syrian Christ

This book represents what could be one of the last authentic photographic pictures of the cultural milieu in which Jesus lived. Rihbany was right when he asserted in 1916 that “the conditions of life in Syria of to-day are essential as they were in the time of Christ…whenever I open my Bible it reads like a letter from Home.” Life conditions in Syria has changed a great deal in the past hundred years, but the deep-rooted traditions of which Rihbany spoke are still alive, and even in some villages, Jesus’ milieu can yet be more clearly seen.