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SUMMARY:Nicholas Chapman - Benjamin Franklin: Printing for Arab Christians
  in Early Eighteenth Century
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DESCRIPTION:When the young Benjamin Franklin first set foot in London on C
 hristmas Eve 1724 he entered and immediately embraced a cosmopolitan world
  with links to many corners of the world. The printing house of Samuel Pal
 mer (Lady Chapel at Saint Bartholomew the Great Church) where he found wor
 k the following month was at that time engaged in a project to print both 
 a New Testament and Psalter in Arabic for the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate 
 of Antioch (based in Damascus\, Syria) together with the Coptic Orthodox P
 atriarchate in Cairo and the Nestorian in Ninevah.\n\nNicholas Chapman wil
 l explore the background and outworking of this project and what is known 
 of Franklin's involvement in it. He will explore Franklin's interest in th
 e Orthodox Christian East during the remainder of his long life and how hi
 s involvement as a young man in Arabic printing would impact at a much lat
 er date on the appearance of the first printed copies of the US Declaratio
 n of Independence.\n\nTo attend the talk\, purchase tickets using the link
 . Ticket cost: £11.55
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LOCATION:St Bartholomew the Great
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