The Oxford illustrated history of the Holy Land
"This book covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the origins of the people who became the Israel of the Bible, it follows the course of the ensuing mil...
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The birth of Israel / Avraham Faust
- Iron Age : tribes to monarchy / Lester L. Grabbe
- Israel and Judah, c. 931-587 BCE / AndreĢ Lemaire
- Babylonian exile and restoration, 587-325 BCE / H.G.M. Williamson
- The Hellenistic and Roman era / John J. Collins
- A Christian Holy Land, 284-638 CE / Konstantin Klein
- The coming of Islam / Milka Levy-Rubin
- The Holy Land in the Crusader and Ayyubid periods, 1099-1250 / Carole Hillenbrand
- The Holy Land from the Mamluk Sultanate to the Ottoman Empire, 1260-1799 / Nimrod Luz
- From Napoleon to Allenby : the Holy Land and the wider Middle East / Robert Fisk
- Pilgrimage / Robert G. Hoyland and Peter Walker
- Sacred spaces and holy places / Richard S. Hess and Denys Pringle
- Scripture and the Holy Land / Adam Silverstein.
