Research Catalog

Title

The Holy Land in American religious thought, 1620-1948 : the symbiosis of American religious approaches to scripture's sacred territory / Gershon Greenberg.

Author

Greenberg, Gershon.

Publication

Lanham : University Press of America, ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.
• Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim.

Description

xiv, 370 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Religious thought > United States
• Judaism > History of doctrines
• 11.27 relation Judaism-Christianity
• Religious thought
• Religionsphilosophie
• Christendom
• Jodendom
• Judaism > Doctrines > History
• Geschichte 1680-1948
• Palestine > In Christianity > History of doctrines
• Palestine > In Judaism > History of doctrines
• Middle East > Palestine
• United States
• Palästina
• USA
• Eretz Israel > In Christianity > History of doctrines
• Eretz Israel > In Judaism > History of doctrines

Note

• "The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the Holy Land in American religious thought -- Puritans and Congregationalists : the Americanization of Zion -- American Indians : ten lost tribes and Christian eschatology -- Protestant pilgrims : disjunction between expectation and reality -- Protestant missionaries -- Jewish conversion and Christ's return -- Consuls : Jews and Holy Land history -- Christianity among Blacks : the spiritual Holy Land -- Protestant literalists : Jewish return and Christian kingdom -- Mormons : dialectical holy lands -- Judaism : American impact and internal divisions -- Protestant liberalism : universal ideals -- Catholicism : Holy Land of Christ's crucifixion -- Judaism : centrality of the land.

ISBN

• 0819192376
• 9780819192370
• 0819192384
• 9780819192387

LCCN

93037015

OCLC

• ocm29029889
• 29029889
• SCSB-2005911

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library