"Near East" remained popular in diplomatic, trade and journalistic circles, but a variation soon developed among the scholars and the men of the cloth and their associates: "the Nearer East," reverting to the classical and then more scholarly distinction of "nearer" and "farther." They undoubtedly saw a need to separate the Biblical lands from the terrain of the Ottoman Empire. The Christians saw the country as the land of the Old and New Testaments, where Christianity had developed. The scholars in the field of studies that eventually became Biblical archaeology attempted to define it on the basis of archaeology. COUNT 5
QSN1 What remained popular in diplomatic, trade and journalistic circles? ANS1 "Near East" QSN2 What variation soon developed among the scholars and the men of the cloth and their associates? ANS2 "the Nearer East," QSN3 There was a need to separate what from the terrain of the Ottoman Empire? ANS3 the Biblical lands QSN4 What did the Christians see the country as? ANS4 the land of the Old and New Testaments QSN5 How did the scholars attempt their definition?  ANS5 on the basis of archaeology