Inventing the Holy Land

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Author: Stephanie Stidham Rogers

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2011-01-06

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0739148443

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This book examines the relationship between American Protestants and Palestine from 1842-1917. The eastward views of Palestine drew the ancient biblical past into the present for Protestants, thus bringing a sharper focus to a new frontier and inventing the idea of a Christian Holy Land.