The
Arabs & Israel for Beginners (Writers and Readers Documentary Comic
Book, 62.)
by Ron David, Susan David (Illustrator)
The
Battle for God
by Karen Armstrong
Paperback from Ballantine Books
Book Published: 30 January, 2001
The
Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin
of Its Sacred Texts
by Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman
The Bible Unearthed is a balanced, thoughtful, bold reconsideration
of the historical period that produced the Hebrew Bible. The headline news
in this book is easy to pick out: there is no evidence for the existence
of Abraham, or any of the Patriarchs; ditto for Moses and the Exodus; and
the same goes for the whole period of Judges and the united monarchy of
David and Solomon. In fact, the authors argue that it is impossible to
say much of anything about ancient Israel until the seventh century B.C.,
around the time of the reign of King Josiah. In that period, "the narrative
of the Bible was uniquely suited to further the religious reform and territorial
ambitions of Judah." Yet the authors deny that their arguments should be
construed as compromising the Bible's power. Only in the 18th century--"when
the Hebrew Bible began to be dissected and studied in isolation from its
powerful function in community life"--did readers begin to view the Bible
as a source of empirically verifiable history. For most of its life, the
Bible has been what Finkelstein and Silberman reveal it once more to be:
an eloquent expression of "the deeply rooted sense of shared origins, experiences,
and destiny that every human community needs in order to survive," written
in such a way as to encompass "the men, women, and children, the rich,
the poor, and the destitute of an entire community." --Michael Joseph
Gross - Amazon.com
Paperback: 400 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.92 x
8.46 x 5.54
Publisher: Touchstone Books; ; (June 2002)
ISBN: 0684869136
The
Case for Israel
by Alan Dershowitz
Hardcover from John Wiley & Sons
Book Published: August, 2003
Canaanite
Myth and Hebrew Epic : Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel
by Frank Moore, Jr. Cross
Chronicle
of the Old Testament Kings : The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of
Ancient Israel
Fateful
Triangle : The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (South End Press
Classics Series)
by Noam Chomsky, Edward W. Said
The
Foods of Israel Today
by Joan Nathan
From
Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman
Book Description: From Beirut to Jerusalem, winner of the 1989 National
Book Award for nonfiction, is the startling, intense and thought-provoking
account of Thomas L. Friedman's decade of reporting in the strife-ridden
Middle East.
Thomas L. Friedman has won two Pulitzer Prizes -- one for his reporting
in Beirut and one for reporting in Jerusalem, the two cities at the center
of the Arab-Israeli conflict. No two cities have received more headline
coverage, nor been more hotly debated, and no reporter has covered them
more in depth than Friedman. in his journey from Beirut to Jerusalem, Friedman
gives us a panoramic view of both the political and personal conflicts.
As a reporter for UPI and The New York Times, he was stationed in Beirut
from 1979 to 1984, and in Lebanon from 1984 to 1989. He describes with
intense vividness the sometimes horrifying, sometimes wondrous cities,
for which, he says, nothing in his life had prepared him.
Friedman brings alive his journey from Beirut to Jerusalem through anecdotes,
history, analysis and self-examination -- and puts all the currents into
perspective with inimitable detail, clarity and remarkable insight. This
is a much-needed framework for understanding the psychology and politics
of the Middle East, and for understanding the future of this unique region.
Paperback from Anchor
Book Published: 15 July, 1990 |
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The
Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East
by David Hirst
Paperback from Thunder's Mouth Press
Book Published: March, 2003
God's
New Israel : Religious Interpretations of American Destiny
Hezbollah
by Hala Jaber
Hardcover from Columbia University Press
Book Published: 15 April, 1997
A
History of Israel : From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time
by Howard M. Sachar
How
Israel Was Won: A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Baylis Thomas
The
Invention of Ancient Israel : The Silencing of Palestinian History
The
Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
by Avi Shlaim
Paperback from W.W. Norton & Company
Book Published: January, 2001
Israel's Secret Wars : A History of Israel's Intelligence Services
by Ian Black, Benny Morris (Contributor)
Listed under Mossad
King
David : The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel
by Jonathan Kirsch
Israel
in Egypt : The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition
by James K. Hoffmeier
Book Description: Scholars of the Hebrew Bible have in the last decade
begun to question the historical accuracy of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt,
as described in the book of Exodus. The reason for the rejection of the
exodus tradition is said to be the lack of historical and archaeological
evidence in Egypt. Those advancing these claims, however, are not specialists
in the study of Egyptian history, culture, and archaeology. In this pioneering
book, James Hoffmeier examines the most current Egyptological evidence
and argues that it supports the biblical record concerning Israel in Egypt.
Paperback: 280 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.67 x
9.19 x 6.09
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (March 1999)
ISBN: 019513088X
The
Israelis : Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land
by Donna Rosenthal
Hardcover from Free Press
Book Published: 07 October, 2003
The
Jewish State : The Struggle for Israel's Soul
Life
in Biblical Israel (Library of Ancient Israel)
by Philip J. King, et al
(Hardcover -- January 16, 2002)
A
Little Too Close to God : The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel
by David Horovitz
A Little Too Close to God is a candid, funny, passionate, and deeply
personal portrait of present-day Israel. David Horovitz, an English journalist
who emigrated to Israel in 1983, now faces the painful question of whether
to stay in his chosen country, where, he writes, "I care about what's happening
with a passion that simply doesn't apply anywhere else," or to raise his
three children in a safer, saner place. Horovitz deftly weaves personal
concerns with political analysis. He is a liberal and a committed supporter
of peace with the Palestinians, but his book also accounts for the most
convincing arguments against reconciliation--arguments conveyed lightly,
through family anecdotes about his relationships with a brother-in-law
in the West Bank and an Orthodox cousin. No one will finish A Little Too
Close to God with any doubt about where Horovitz stands regarding Israeli
politics, however. His book is, finally, a strong attack on the idea that
Israel is invincible. He sees a great deal of violence and moral failure
in his society (at one political rally: "I felt as if I were among wild
animals, vicious, angry predators craving flesh and scenting blood.").
He sees so much of this sort of thing that he cannot believe that Israel
can afford to do anything but compromise. --Michael Joseph Gross - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 311 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.14 x
8.68 x 5.93
Publisher: Knopf; (May 2, 2000)
ISBN: 0375403817
Israel,
My Beloved
Image
and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
by Norman G. Finkelstein
Jewish
Fundamentalism in Israel
Many
Religions, One Covenant : Israel, the Church, and the World
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Foreword by Scott Hahn
Paperback: 113 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.39 x
7.36 x 4.80
Publisher: Ignatius Press; (September 1999)
ISBN: 0898707536
Occupied
Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada
by Wendy Pearlman, Laura Junka
Book Description: When the occupied territories exploded following
the collapse of the Camp David talks and Ariel Sharon's inflammatory visit
to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Wendy Pearlman, a young Jewish woman
from Nebraska, immersed herself amongst ordinary Palestinians and, a la
Studs Terkel, recorded their lives. A remarkable oral narrative emerges
from the school principals, professors, TV reporters, school kids, mothers,
doctors, engineers, filmmakers, shop owners, victims of shellings and forced
house removals that spoke to her: "The personal stories and heartfelt reflections
that I encountered did not expose a hatred of Jews or a yearning to push
Israelis into the sea. Rather, they painted a portrait of a people who
longed for precisely that which had inspired the first Israelis: the chance
to be citizens in a country of their own." Containing over thirty searing
oral testimonies, this is one of the first books to tell the Palestinian
story from the point of view of Palestinians living in the occupied territories.
Paperback from Thunder's Mouth Press
Book Published: May, 2003 |
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Palestine
by Joe Sacco, Edward Said
Paperback from Fantagraphics Books
Book Published: January, 2002
The
Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination:
1969-1994
by Edward W. Said
Paperback from Vintage Books
Book Published: June, 1995
The
Rabin File: An Unauthorized Expose
by Uri Milstein, Aryeh Amit
Hardcover from Gefen Books
Book Published: May, 1999
Reporting
from Ramallah : An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land
by Amira Hass
Paperback from MIT Press
Book Published: 20 July, 2003
What
Shall I Do with This People?: Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism
by Milton Viorst
Hardcover from Free Press
Book Published: 08 October, 2002
Israel at Fifty
by Dan Perry, Alfred Ironside, Shimon Peres (Introduction)
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