Bible and Sword : : England and Palestine From the Bronze Age to Balfour
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Includes index.
Origins: A fable agreed upon : Search for an ancestor ; The Phoenicians in Albion ; Roman Judaea and Roman Britain -- Apostle to the Britons: Joseph of Arimathea -- "Within thy gates, O Jerusalem": the pilgrim movement -- The Crusades -- The Bible in English -- Merchant adventurers to the levant -- On the edge of prophecy: Puritan England and the hope of Israel -- Eclipse of the Bible: the reign of Mr. Worldly Wiseman -- The eastern question: clash of empires in Syria -- Lord Shaftesbury's vision: an Anglican Israel -- Palestine in the path of empire -- Enter the Jews: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me?" -- The rush for the Holy Land -- Closing in: Disraeli, Suez, and Cyprus -- The eagles gather: the sultan's dilemma -- Herzl and Chamberlain: the first territorial offer -- Culmination: the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine mandate : Mr. Balfour and Doctor Weizmann ; The Balfour declaration: acetone or conscience? ; In the trap of history: the mandate. -- End of the vision.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1984, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 346 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780345314277 (softcover)
0345314271 :
SUBJECTS
Zionism -- History.
Palestine -- Relations -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Relations -- Palestine.