This study enquires into the impact of the Holy Land upon preaching and argues for the wider relevance of the Holy Land in all its aspects—geographical and cultural, historical and contemporary. In each section preaching strategies are suggested in relation to specific sites, ta…
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This dissertation explores the intersections between tourism, theology and politics by focusing on a grassroots organization of evangelical tours to Israel. The study suggests viewing Christian Zionism as the underlying ideology that guides the organizers of the tours and explai…
Scholars have often commented on the 'biblicization' of the Spanish Monarchy under Philip II (r. 1556–1598). In contrast to the predominantly neo-Roman image projected by his father, Charles I/V (r. 1516/9–1556), Philip presented himself as an Old Testament monarch in the image …
This dissertation focuses on a Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (London, British Library, MS. Add. 15268) made in the second half of the thirteenth century during the Latin occupation of the Levant. This codex has never been the subject of a comprehensive interpretive study, but …
This study focuses on Seeds of Peace, a peace education program whose purpose is to bring together teenagers from conflict regions, train them to be future leaders, and promote conflict resolution, reconciliation, and coexistence. The experiences of the Palestinian, Israeli-Jewi…
This dissertation explores how representations of the Holy Land shaped nineteenth-century Americans' conceptions of racial identity in the emerging United States. In the nineteenth century, Americans physically encountered Palestine for the first time, exploring, mapping, and es…
The subject of the Holy Land and its years of conflict involves many areas of investigation. There are historical, geo-political, psychological, and theological concerns. Specifically, one's understanding of the Holy Land and the relationship of Jews to it will affect ideas abou…
The historiography on western European Holy Land pilgrimage effectively ends with the fifteenth century, giving the inaccurate impression that early modern western Christians either did not visit Jerusalem or, if they did, they were not true pilgrims. Though pilgrim numbers cert…
This dissertation explores the development of a vigorous and diverse subgenre in nineteenth-century American travel writing, that of the Holy Land travel narrative. I seek to delineate the contours of American discourse about the Holy Land during the nineteenth century by examin…
Through a comparative analysis of colonialism in the New World and Holy Land with attention to how politics influence literary production, I examine the process by which settler societies transform theological narratives into national histories to justify their occupation of for…