Whose Promised Land: The continuing conflict over Israel and Palestine
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has profoundly affected the Middle East for almost seventy years, and shows no sign of ending. With two peoples claiming the same piece of land for different reasons, it remains a huge political and humanitarian problem.
Can it ever be resolved? If so, how? These are the basic questions addressed in a new and substantially revised fifth edition of this highly acclaimed book.
Having lived and worked in the Middle East at various times since 1968, Colin Chapman explains the roots of the problem and outlines the arguments of the main parties involved. He also explores the theme of land in the Old and New Testaments, discussing legitimate and illegitimate ways of using the Bible in relation to the conflict.
This new and fully updated edition covers developments since 9/11, including the building of the security wall, the increased importance of Hamas and the Islamic dimension of the conflict, and the attacks on Lebanon and Gaza.
A fully revised and updated edition of a classic book on Israel and Palestine
Product Details
- Title : Whose Promised Land?: The continuing conflict over Israel and Palestine
- Author: Chapman, Colin
- Publisher: Lion Books
- Publication Date: 2015
- ISBN: 9780745970264
Colin Chapman is former Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, Lebanon. He is the author of Christianity on Trial and The Case for Christianity (both Lion) and Islam and the West: Conflict, Co-existence or Conversion (Paternoster).
Reviews
1 rating
Bruce C
1/12/2024
Content-wise, this is a great book. It's well researched, clearly written, and thought-provoking. One of the great strengths of this book is that it features lots of quotes of original sources. For example, David Ben-Gurion in a letter to his son in 1937 stated: "We must expel Arabs and take their places… and, if we have to use force – not to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those places – then we have force at our disposal." That is a powerful statement. If you want to know the Zionist position, then it is important to hear from the Zionists themselves. But, the book's strength is compromised a bit by how the book is formatted for the Logos app. This e-book does not use indentation to mark off the quoted material. This makes it frustrating to identify where the quote begins and ends. The person who made the statement is bolded, but the reader is given very little indication as to whether it is the paragraph preceding the person's name or the paragraph following that is the quoted material. I found myself often scrolling up and down the screen to make sure I knew who said what. On the plus side of the format are the very useful hyperlinks that characterize all of the Logos resources. Colin Chapman and Kate Benson, Whose Promised Land: The Continuing Conflict over Israel and Palestine (Oxford, England: Lion Books, 2015).
