A Romance of Moab by William Gay Ballantine, c. 1932

Item Information

Title:
A Romance of Moab by William Gay Ballantine, c. 1932
Description:
"A Romance of Moab" is a story written by William Gay Ballantine. According to the document the story was was told or written in 1932. It is part of a series of writtens or talks collected and donated by Horace Allen in 1970 that appear to have been given or written for a "Travellers Club." The story starts in Jaffa, the oldest part of Tel-Aviv, with a "dragonman" or conductor of tourists in the holy land and tells the story of his first and only tour that he gave. Over the course of the journey he helps find an archealogical treasure, thus winning passage back to America and the heart of his future wife.
Creator:
Ballantine, W. G. (William Gay), 1848-1937
Date:
[1932?]
Format:
Documents
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Series:
Faculty Files
Subjects:
Springfield College--Faculty
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Extent:
17 pages
Link to Item:
https://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/10020
Terms of Use:
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Language:
English
Notes:
Moab or the Kingdom of Moab is the historic name for a mountainous strip of land in modern day Jordan along the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. William Gay Ballantine was born in Washington D.C. in 1848 but spent his childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio where his father was a Professor of Hebrew at Lane Theological Society. In 1868 Ballantine graduated from Marietta College and in 1872 earned a degree from Union Theological Society and entered post-graduate studies at the University of Leipzeg. Ballantine spent two years as a Professor of Greek at the University of Indiana before heading to Oberlin College as Professor of Greek and Hebrew Exegesis. In 1891 he was elected President of Oberlin, a position he held until 1896 when he resigned. In 1897 he accepted a position as Professor of Bible at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, where one of his former students at Oberlin, Laurence Doggett, was President. Ballantine offered a modern view of the Bible which fell under much scrutiny from supporters of the International YMCA Training School who questioned the curriculum of the institution. Ballantine's teachings even caused some to withdraw their financial support of the institution. Doggett stood by and supported Ballantine's teaching against this pressure. Ballantine taught at Springfield College until 1919 at which time he retired to devote himself to writing. He died in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1937.
Identifier:
ballantine-william-romance-moab