Findings in the Scripture. Or, Fullfilled Prophecy [Cover Title].

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Jerusalem, Palestine, Arab Federation Printing Press,, circa 1930s, very stiff buff wrappers, front printed

Houldershaw, Jessie Ansley (1863–1944). . Not illustrated; 28 pp. 8vo, very stiff buff wrappers, front printed;  side-stapled. Jerusalem: Arab Federation Printing Press, [circa 1930s]

OCLC shows six holdings, the date is not given on the piece, but agreement having looked at the individual institutional cataloguing, seems to be that the 1930s is the correct era, the present copy is inscribed to the Public Library of Del Rio, Texas and the author gives the date as March 19, 1938. There is a volume of the same title with 77 pp. also given a 1930s date.

We have been unable to find out very much about the author other than her dates and the fact that she was a resident of Stayner, Ontario, Canada; she is buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery adjacent to St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem. The Arab Federation Printing Press is perhaps her own invention. There are three examples in OCLC.

This little pamphlet is a paean to British Israelism, a alternative view of the lineage of the people of the British Isles, claiming that they are the direct descendants of the ten lost tribes of Israel, giving Old Testament references to proving this by the Bible. This viewpoint had quite a following in both Britain and North America as a whole.