Zeal for Zion : Christians, Jews, & the idea of the Promised Land
The standard histories of Zionism have depicted it almost exclusively as a Jewish political movement, one in which Christians do not appear except as antagonists. In the highly original Zeal for Zion, Shalom Goldman makes the case for a wider and more inclusive history, one that brings the substantial Christian involvement with Zionism--most recently by American evangelical Protestants--into the light
Print Book, English, ©2009
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2009
History
367 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780807833445, 9781469622293, 0807833444, 1469622297
317929525
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)