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Resources for the Interfaith Pilgrimage to Israel and Palestine 2010

Suggested Reading List for Interfaith Pilgrimage to Israel and Palestine
Spiritual Directors International 2010

The books with an asterisk ( * ) are a good place to begin!
List compiled by Ted Falcon, Don Mackenzie, Jamal Rahman, Liz Ellmann, and Iyad Qumri.

Aharoni, Yohanan, The Land of the Bible

Armstrong, Karen, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Armstrong, Karen, Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World

Armstrong, Karen, Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)

Armstrong, Karen, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths*

Ateek, Naim, Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation*

Borg, Marcus, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith

Borg, Marcus and Crossan, John Dominic, The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem

Borg, Marcus and Crossan, John Dominic, The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth*

Burridge, Richard, Four Gospels, One Jesus: A symbolic Reading

Chacour, Elias, Blood Brothers*

Chapman, Colin, Whose Promised Land?

Cousineau, Phil, The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred *

Crossan, John Dominic And Reed, Jonathan L., Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts

Elsner, John, Pilgrimage: Past & Present in the World Religions

Falcon, Ted, Mackenzie, Don and Rahman, Jamal, Getting to the Heart of Interfaith: The Eye-Opening, Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi & a Sheikh

Friedman, Thomas, From Beirut to Jerusalem: Revised Edition

Grossman, David, The Yellow Wind

Hoffman, Lawrence, Israel A Spiritual Travel Guide: A Companion For The Modern Jewish Pilgrim

Janin, Hunt, Four Paths to Jerusalem: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Secular Pilgrimages, 1000 BC to 2001 CE

May, H.G., Oxford Bible Atlas*

Michener, James, The Source: A Novel

Murphy-O’Connor, Jerome, The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide*

Peterson, John L., A Walk in Jerusalem: Stations of the Cross

Rahman Jahmal, Elias, Kathleen Schmitt and Redding, Ann Holmes, Out of Darkness, Into Light: Spiritual Guidance in the Quran with Reflections from Jewish and Christian Sources (Spiritual Directors International)

Rothchild, Alice, Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: The Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience

Sanders, E. P., The Historical Figure of Jesus

Shehadeh, Raja, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

Tolan, Sandy, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East *

Wilkinson, John, The Jerusalem Jesus Knew: An Archaeological Guide to the Gospels


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