The Restoration of Israel: Christian Zionism in Religion, Literature, and Politics

by Gerhard Falk

The restoration of Israel to the Holy Land was originally an English, Protestant idea. Jewish Zionism came later and succeeded only because of the Holocaust. The principal impetus for the promotion of a Jewish return to Zion was religious and began with the translation of the Bible from the Hebrew to English by Tindale. Because literature in the English language depicted Jews almost always in an unfavorable light, both British and American religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820488623
• ISBN13: 9780820488622
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 224 Pages