The opening line of Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, the People, the Bible says it all: “For Palestinians, including the Palestinian Christian community, Palestine is a real land with real people.” ...

Shlomo Sand, a history professor at Tel Aviv University, became famous after publishing “The Invention of the Jewish People” (2008), in which he deconstructed the historical myths about Jews as being ...

In this thought-provoking analysis, pastor Raheb (The Politics of Persecution) unpacks the American Christian right’s use and misuse of biblical notions to justify Israel’s “settler colonization” of ...

In 2005, an American scholar of Middle East history published a small book of 159 pages called “Reply”. It was written by Eli Hertz, as a reply to the advisory opinion of 9 July 2004 as submitted by ...

All books featured in this new section are available from Middle East Books and More , the nation’s preeminent bookstore on the ­Middle East and U.S.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

AMMAN — Since the early decades of the 19th century, numerous Western travellers, clergymen, politicians and scholars visited Palestine and the land located to the east of the Jordan, almost all of ...

A new book by Dr. Roger Baumann of the Hope College sociology faculty examines how African American Christian engagement with the global issue of Israel and Palestine reflects contrasting Black church ...