Barbara Kreiger's intriguing narrative 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.
After her disappointment in a failed prophecy that the End of
Days would take place in bet 1844, Mrs. Minor determined that the
Holy Land was not yet adequately prepared for such an event and
decided that it would be her mission to teach the poverty-stricken
Jews of Palestine to work the soil. In this very American story,
Mrs. Minor, like so many other pioneers of her day, looked to the
land as her future.
Even as her mission was distinctly religious, her daily efforts
were in the social realm. And although her work brought Jews and
Arabs together, and her small farm was a unique settlement where
Christians, Muslims, and Jews labored alongside one another, the
events detailed in Divine Expectations had dramatic and tragic
diplomatic and international repercussions.
With the deft touch of a novelist, Barbara Kreiger weaves the
little-known story of Clorinda Minor into the larger context of the
region and its history, presenting it in its charming eccentricity
and its gripping reality.
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