Zeal for Zion : Christians, Jews, & the idea of the Promised Land

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Shalom

Publication/Creation:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]

Format:

Book

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Full Title:

Zeal for Zion : Christians, Jews, & the idea of the Promised Land / Shalom Goldman

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Christian Zionism--History
Zionism--History
Jews--Restoration
Israel--History--Religious aspects--Christianity

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The two Zionisms -- The Christian Zionists and the Hebrew poet : Laurence and Alice Oliphant's encounter with Naphtali Herz Imber (1882-1888) -- Theodor Herzl and his Christian associates (1883-1904) -- The Reverend Herbert Danby : scholar of Rabbinics, Zionist, Christian missionary (1889-1953) -- Rome and Jerusalem : two Catholic thinkers on Judaism and two papal visits to Jerusalem, 1964 and 2000 -- Twentieth-century literary pilgrims to Zion : Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Graves, and Vladimir Nabokov -- Jewish settlers and Christian Zionists (1967-2007).

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

367 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990024933670302486

ISBN:

0807833444 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807833445 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC Number:

317929525

Barcode:

300000503153
300000461613
010002470090