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W. (William) Ewing
1857–1932
A Scottish minister, chaplain, and writer, he brought years of life in Palestine into books that mix travel, history, and close observation of local communities. His work is especially remembered for vivid writing on the lands east of the Jordan and for his contribution to a major Bible dictionary.
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About the author
Born in 1857, William Ewing was a Scottish minister who spent many years serving in the Middle East, especially in Tiberias and later Jerusalem. Records describe him as a minister of the Church of Scotland, and he is also noted for his service as a World War I army chaplain.
As an author, he is best known for Arab and Druze at Home (1907), a travel-based account shaped by five years of residence in Tiberias and by his encounters with communities east of the Jordan. He is also associated with The Temple Dictionary of the Bible (1910), which helped secure his place among early 20th-century religious writers and reference-book contributors.
Ewing died in Jerusalem in 1932. His surviving work offers a blend of lived experience, regional description, and religious scholarship, making it of interest to readers drawn to Palestine, biblical history, and older travel writing.