Discusses how Palestine became a Holy Land to Christians and how Christian ideas and feelings towards the land of the Bible evolved as they lived there and made it their own. Wilken draws on primary texts and archaeological evidence and covers the period up to the 7th century.
This important, wide-ranging book examines how Palestine became a Holy Land to Christians and how their ideas and feelings toward the land of the Bible evolved as Christians lived there and made it their own. Robert L. Wilken traces the Christian conception of a Holy Land from its origins in the Hebrew Bible to the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in the seventh century and also discusses how Jews responded to the Christianization of the Land of Israel.
