The Free Church of Scotland in 19th-century Lebanon

Abstract

In the 19th century, the main interest of the Scottish Presbyterian churches in the Levant related to Jewish missions. The only other major missionary effort by Scots in this region was the Free Church of Scotland's Shweir mission. This was smaller in scale and significance than the parallel missions to Jews and little has been written about it. Now, a hundred years after the Scots abandoned their mission in Shweir, it is worth looking at this mission again.