46 the Palestine Exploration fund and the search for the "city of david" The search for the true location of the biblical "City of David" was at every stage of the development of the Palestine Exploration Fund ( PEF ) one of its stated objectives, from the establishing of the society in 1865 and until the 1960 s . The society was founded by the biblical historian and musicologist George Grove with the intention of making an "accurate and systematic investigation of the archaeology, the topography, the geology and physical geography, the manners and customs of the Holy Land, for biblical illustration" ( Watson 1915 : These lofty aims to make an overall study of the Land of Israel were indeed achieved when . ) 17 an exploration and mapping operation ( the "Survey of Western Palestine" ) was conducted by the PEF in the 1870 s, but although work was conducted throughout the country, Jerusalem remained at all times a major target of its antiquarian and scholarly interest . This is well refl...
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