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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land (Paperback)
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Illustrated History
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land 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 millennia down to the time when the Ottoman Empire
succumbed to British and French rule at the end of the First World
War. Parts of the story, especially as known from the Bible, will
be widely familiar. Less familiar are the ways in which modern
research, both from archaeology and from other ancient sources,
sometimes modify this story historically. Better understanding,
however, enables us to appreciate crucial chapters in the story of
the Holy Land, such as how and why Judaism developed in the way
that it did from the earlier sovereign states of Israel and Judah
and the historical circumstances in which Christianity emerged from
its Jewish cradle. Later parts of the story are vital not only for
the history of Islam and its relationships with the two older
religions, but also for the development of pilgrimage and religious
tourism, as well as the notions of sacred space and of holy books
with which we are still familiar today. From the time of Napoleon
on, European powers came increasingly to develop both cultural and
political interest in the region, culminating in the British and
French conquests which carved out the modern states of the Middle
East. Sensitive to the concerns of those for whom the sacred books
of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are of paramount religious
authority, the authors all try sympathetically to show how
historical information from other sources, as well as scholarly
study of the texts themselves, enriches our understanding of the
history of the region and its prominent position in the world's
cultural and intellectual history.
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