Reading List for Tantur in July
I need to read at least four of these books during the month of July. Have not yet decided which of these books I will read. I share it here in case anyone else is interested in these subjects. Fr Dan
Often people ask about reading material on
various subjects related to the Holy Land.
This reading list is not necessarily related to Tantur programs but
provided as general subject material for extended time here at Tantur.
Timothy Lowe
Rector
Bible:
Rami
Arav and John Rousseau. Jesus and His World (Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 1995).
James
Charlesworth. Jesus Within Judaism
(NY: Doubleday, 1988).
K.C.
Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman, Palestine
in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts (Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 2008 [2nd Ed.]).
Bruce
J. Malina, The New Testament World:
Insights from Cultural Anthropology (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox
Press, 2001 [3rd Ed.]).
Stephen
M. Wylen, The Jews in the Time of Jesus:
An Introduction (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1996).
Holy Land:
Robert
Wilken. The Land Called Holy: Palestine
in Christian History & Thought. (New Haven: Yale University Press,
1992), I'll probably read this book, since I've read other books by this author.
Archeology/Holy Sites:
Jerome
Murphy-O’Connor. The Holy Land: An Oxford
Archaeological Guide from Earliest time to 1700. 5th Ed. (NY: Oxford University Press, 2008) - This one also is on my list.
Imaginative History:
Larry
Collins and Dominique Lapierre. O
Jerusalem! (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007).
James
Michener. The Source. (New York:
Random House, 2002).
Political Situation:
In this section, try
to read two books, not one: from a
Jewish/Israeli perspective and from a Palestinian perspective.
Shlomo
Ben Ami, Scars of War, Wounds of Peace:
The Israeli-Arab Tragedy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Rashid
Khalidi, The Iron Cage: The Story of the
Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Boston: Beacon Press, 2007).
Thomas
Friedman. From Beirut to Jerusalem.
(NY: Doubleday, 1989)
Martin
Gilbert. History of Israel. (NY:
William Morrow, 1998).
Edward
Said. The Question of Palestine. (NY:
Vintage Books, 1980).
Elias
Chacour. Blood Brothers (Chosen
Books, 2003). I will read this one!
Christian Churches in the Holy Land:
William Dalrymple, From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the
Christians in the Middle East (New York: Holt Reprints, 1999).
Charles M. Sennott, The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land’s
Christians at the Turn of a New Millennium (New York: Public Affairs Books,
2001).
Prepared on 13 June
2014
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