Both Uses of
Palestine
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- I call it A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or the Parable of The Plums.†
Chpt 7 *Palestine = a geographic region on the Eastern Coast of the Mediterranean in the Middle East, at various times comprising parts of modern Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and Egypt
- Did he see only a second coincidence in the second scene narrated to him, described by the narrator as A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The Parable of the Plums?†
Chpt 17
Definition:
a geographic region on the Eastern Coast of the Mediterranean in the Middle East, at various times comprising parts of modern Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and Egypt
Also known as the Holy Land because of its history for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.