Inventing the Holy Land

Inventing the Holy Land
Author: Stephanie Stidham Rogers
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0739148443

This book examines the relationship between American Protestants and Palestine from 1842-1917. The eastward views of Palestine drew the ancient biblical past into the present for Protestants, thus bringing a sharper focus to a new frontier and inventing the idea of a Christian Holy Land.

The Invention of the Land of Israel

The Invention of the Land of Israel
Author: Shlomo Sand
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1844679462

What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.

The Invention of the Jewish People

The Invention of the Jewish People
Author: Shlomo Sand
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2010-06-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 178168362X

A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In this iconoclastic work, which spent nineteen weeks on the Israeli bestseller list and won the coveted Aujourd'hui Award in France, Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel's future.

Defending the Holy Land

Defending the Holy Land
Author: Zeev Maoz
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 743
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472033417

A scathing and brilliant revisionist history, Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present. Book jacket.

Revealing the Holy Land

Revealing the Holy Land
Author: Kathleen Stewart Howe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780899510958

Exhibition itinerary : Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Jan. 29-May 31, 1998; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Oct. 13-Dec. 13, 1999; St. Louis Art Museum, Feb. 23-May 23, 1999.

The Bible and Zionism

The Bible and Zionism
Author: Nur Masalha
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2007-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781842777619

This text investigates the Biblical justification for Zionism & charts the historical rise of Zionism since its 19th century roots. Providing a contribution to the argument for a single democratic & secular Israeli state, it shows how the biblical language of 'chosen people' & 'promised land' is used to justify ethnic division & violence.

Whose Land? Whose Promise?:

Whose Land? Whose Promise?:
Author: Gary M. Burge
Publisher: The Pilgrim Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2013-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0829821058

Because events in the Middle East continue to escalate in tragic complexity, Christians still struggle with making sense of it all. In this updated version of "Whose Land? Whose Promise?," Gary Burge further explores the personal emotions and opinions, and sharpens his theological argument in the context of the new developments surrounding the crisis in the Middle East. "Whose Land? Whose Promise?" offers insight for the thoughtful reader on an explosive topic and challenges personal truths on peace.

The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land

The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land
Author: Kathryn Blair Moore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2017-02-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1107139082

Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.