Christianity in Palestine

Alexander V. Krylov

Prophetic Eschatology of John the Baptist and the Phenomenon of Early Christianity ..........5

Andrey V. Kurbanov, Lydia V. Spyridonova

Edition of an unpublished story about the Prophet Muhammad and the Hagarites from the Life of Cosmas and John Damascene BHG 394 ..........18

Irina V. Fedorova

“A List of Relics Brought from Jerusalem”: New Facts about the 1872 Pilgrimage of Members of the Russian Imperial Family ..........40

Marina S. Krutova

Memoirs of russian pilgrims Varvara Brun de Saint-Hippolyte and Varvara Pelskaya about their journey in the Holy Land in the middle of the XIX century (based on the material of the Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library) ..........52

Lora A. Gerd

Russian property in Palestine in the 1930s–1940s (based on materials from British archives) ..........81

Irina Yu. Smirnova

Jerusalem vector in the activities of The Russian Clergy and Church Aid Fund (1935–1944) ..........98

Aleksey Y. Bokatov

Building of a church in Kerak in 1849: on the history of the «Russian presence» in Transjordan in the 19th century ..........123