Memoir of Rev. Henry Lobdell, M.D., late Missionary of the American Board at Mosul: Including the Early History of the Assyrian Mission.

Notes

The narrative includes efforts to proselytize among the Jews of Kurdistan. There is a reference to the reputed birthplace of Judas Iscariot and discussion of the sites, according to local legend, of the tombs of the Prophets Jonah, Daniel, Ezekiel, and Nahum. Rev. Lobdell meets up with [John Henry] Brühl, a converted German Jew and missionary sent by London Jews’ Society to Mesopotamia, in chap. 18. A perfect copy has a frontispiece of the author.