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Christians in the Holy Land Today |
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| The Boston
Globe's Middle East bureau chief uses the path traveled
by Jesus to structure a vivid sketch of the
often-overlooked Christian communities in the Holy Land
sharing the stories of people he encounters in his
travels and work. |
Chronicles the history
and current state of Christianity in the Holy Land,
describing each Christian denomination there and
providing a country-by-country report on the present
situation of the church. |
Reviewers
comments: "This is a book that you will pick up over and
over and over.
And you will be changed each time. A yearning will begin
to stir in you, a yearning to draw closer to God.
" . . .In truth, the entire book is one you will want to
reflect upon. It is filled with beautiful writing and
wonderful photographs. " |
There are hundreds of
guidebooks deisgned for pilgrims and other visitors. The
encounter with the stones which Jesus saw and touched
has been, for many, a powerful spiritual experience. But
the Christian presence is not just history. There are
living, worshipping Christian communities in the Holy
Land today. This unique guidebook is designed to help
you encounter contemporary Christians in Israel, the
Palestinian and Occupied Territories. Written half a
century after the creation of the state of Israel, with
the co-operation of all the Christian traditions in the
Holy Land, it is a key companion for visitors who want
to share for a while the thoughts and the life, witness
and presence of those who now live the faith of the
apostles in this troubled land. |
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protect their ancient churches from desecrating
marauders on horseback, worshipers in the Holy Lands
centuries ago sealed off most of their doors to keep the
invaders outside their sacred halls, so the term,
"narrow gate churches" began to be used to describe
Christian churches in the land of our savior’s birth.
This history of how Christians have survived for two
millennia under stressful conditions is a tribute to the
faith of the remnant community which has rather
miraculously survived under hostile regimes and
straitened conditions. |
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The Holy Land
Through Different Lenses |
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A memoir from the Holy Land told from a Jewish
perspective. |
A memoir from the Holy Land told from a Muslim
perspective. |
A memoir from the Holy Land told from a Christian
perspective |
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Christians
in the Holy Land Yesterday/Travel Literature |
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| Stories told by John
Moshus of the Christian people and places he encountered
on his travels through the Holy Land in the Late 6th
Century |
Re-enacting John Moshus'
travels, encountering today's Christians and what one
reviewer called the "dying [Christian] culture." |
An attempt
at an easily readable, non-biased, non-denominational
history of Christianity. |
Written by a Christian
Arab, a history of the remnant Christian community which
has miraculously survived in the Holy Land for 2,000
under hostile regimes and straitened conditions. |
This valuable collection of thirteen studies provides
an overview of recent research on central issues
concerning the history of late antique Gaz. This book
covers a relatively neglected chapter in the complex and
fascinating Christian history of the Holy Land.
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| This book is an
excellent choice for visitors to the Holy Land who want
to take an in-depth look at the area's historical sites.
Among the special features are 150 site plans, maps,
diagrams, and photographs; routes through the Old City
of Jerusalem; a brief historical outline; and a glossary
of essential terms and more than 70 shaded sidebars
offer a mini-anthology of ancient texts. |
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Holy Land Travel Guides |
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Holy Land Fiction |
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Sweeping fiction offering an insider's look at the daily
life of a biblical group of mothers and wives told in
the voice of Jacob's daughter Dinah, who offers stories
of her four mothers, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah,
all wives to Jacob. |
The first of the Omar
Yussef crime novels. Omar is a modest 56-year-old
Christian schoolteacher in the Dehaisha Palestinian
refugee camp, becomes an unlikely detective amid the
uncertainties and violence of modern Bethlehem. Israeli
gunfire peppers the area, the Muslims mistrust the
minority Christian population, and the Martyrs Brigade
instills terror in virtually every group. The characters
and the setting are so richly textured and the
politicized events so wrenching that the mystery story
becomes incidental. |
In this second Omar Yussuf Sirhan
mystery novel the principled teacher turned-detective,
who travels to Gaza from the West Bank. Omar Yussuf
seeks to free a kidnapped colleagues' as the
auther take a hard look at the pervasive corruption and
physical degeneration that characterize life in Gaza for
all those trapped in that small territory. Rees enhances
his novel with impressive explanations of the history of
the area and, more interestingly, with one wonderful
character study after another. As intricate and
good as the plot is in this novel, the character studies
and descriptions of the place are even better. |
the third Omar
Yussef mystery novel and another page turner, this time
exploring the interplay between Hamas and Fatah in the
West Bank town of Nablus as Omar Yussef is driven to
solve the murder of the son of the religious leader of
the small Samaritan tribe. If you want to learn about
Palestine and its people, these novels are as good a
place as any to start-- and you get some great detective
stories too.
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A woman's mid-life flight to the Holy Land as she
questions her marriage and her life. Not the typical
inspirational novel, but part travelogue, part history
lesson, part Bible study, blending a wonderful story
with empathetic characters. |
In the words of reviewers: "one of those rare, absorbing
novels that grabs you from the first page and simply
doesn't let go." "In the same caliber as "The Red
Tent". " "No longer am I an observer reading [Bible]
stories from afar. I am now a participant, living the
stories with the characters that experienced them." |
Fiction covering the
history of the Holy Land, from Roman times to the
present day by putting you right into the lives of three
women: Leah, one of the early Christians; Hannah, an
archeologist; and Rachel, Hannah's daughter. |
A semi-autobiographical
"elaborate tapestry" by an Israeli Christian Arab that
interweaves the 150-year history of the author's clan in
Fassuta, a village in northern Israel. In the words of
one reviewer: "It is highly poetic prose and a magical
exploration of childhood." |
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Photographs of
the Holy Land |
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The Israeli-Palestinian Dispute |
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| "A book of
extraordinary power and integrity written [that] takes
that great tale of flight and conquest and tells it . .
. with precision and moral economy, with awesome detail
and honesty." The Washington Post Book World |
The story of Lebanon
and Israel in the 1980s that, in the words of one
reviewer, "greatly broaden my perspective and empathy
for people on all sides of the Middle East conflicts." |
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Reading
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Recommended by Pastor Wayne.
"Too often we see people react to what they don't like
about the church. In From Eternity to Here, Frank Viola
offers up the doctrine which causes him to act on behalf
of the church. Make no doubt about it--Frank is a
provocateur and an artist-- and both come through in
this book. Frank continues to challenge the
church-at-large with a powerful mind, an impassioned
voice, and a love for the Bride of Christ. You need to
get this book and wrestle with Frank through the
biblical passages regarding our identity in Christ as
His body and the mission our God has entrusted to us."
~Ed Stetzer, author of Breaking the Missional Code. |
Recommended by Pastor Wayne. "Chan describes at
length the sorry state of lukewarm Christians who strive
for a life characterized by control, safety and an
absence of suffering. In stark contrast, the book offers
real-life accounts of believers who have given all—time,
money, health, even their lives—in obedience to Christ's
call.Chan also recounts his own attempts to live crazy
by significantly downsizing his home and giving away his
resources to the poor. Earnest Christians will find
valuable take-home lessons from Chan's excellent book."
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