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Sinai Tapestry
by Edward Whittemore (1977)
(version 2.0)




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Contents
PART ONE
1. Strongbow
2. Wallenstein
3. Cairo 1840
4. Sinai 1836-1843
5. The Haj
6. YHWH
7. The Tiberias Telegrams

PART TWO
8. O'Sullivan Beare
9. Haj Harun
10. The Scarab
11. Maud
12. Aqaba
13. Jericho

PART THREE
14. Stern
15. The Jordan
16. Jerusalem 700 B.C.-1932
17. The Bosporus
18. Melchizedek 2200 B.C.-1933
19. Athens
20. Smyrna 1922
21. Cairo 1942
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Strongbow

Standing straight out in front of him, thick and menacing, was a medieval lance twelve feet long.



The Arabic Jew, or Jewish Arab, who owned the entire Middle East at the turn of the century passed his
early life exactly as had his English forebears for six hundred and fifty years.

At the family estate in southern England he was taught to care for flowers, especially roses. His parents
died while he was young and his aunts and uncles moved into the manor to raise him. In due time he
would receive his title and become the twenty-ninth Plantagenet Strongbow to bear it, merely one more