Contents: Classical Foundations: The Three Monotheistic Faiths -- Peoplehood, Covenant, and Land in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The Land of Canaan: Crossroads of Empires -- Covenant People and Promised Land in Hebrew Scripture -- Peoplehood, Covenant, and Land in Rabbinic Judaism -- The Two Covenants, the Heavenly Land, and the Exile of the Jews in Early Christianity -- The Community of Islam and the Peoples of the Book -- Historical Development of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Religious and Secular Roots of Zionism -- Kabbalistic Messianism and the Return to the Holy Land -- European Nationalism and the Rise of Zionism -- Varieties of Zionism -- Christianity and Zionism: The Making of an Alliance -- The Reformation Era and the Restoration of the Jews -- Christian Zionism and European Empire -- American Christian Zionism and the Foundation of Israel -- The Emergence and Survival of Palestinian Nationalism -- The Beginnings of Arab Nationalism and Its Betrayal by Western Imperialism -- Palestinian Nationalism during the Mandatory Period -- The Suppression and Resurrection of the Palestinian National Movement -- From the Lebanese Civil War to the 1987-88 Uprising -- From Oslo to the Second Intifada, 1991-2001 -- Palestinian Nationalism and Zionism -- Contradictions of the Jewish State -- Building a Jewish Majority: Immigration and Settlement -- Making Palestinians Invisible in Israel -- Making Palestinians Invisible in the 1967 Occupied Territories -- Christian Relations to Judaism and to Zionism. Other Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) and index. Published in: New York Physical description: xxi, 277 pages : maps ; 22 cm

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