A history of Israel and the Holy Land

Inbunden bok. Continuum. 2001. 375 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. Skyddsomslag i gott skick. Foreword by Shimon Peres:

This land is a cradle of values and norms the site that witnessed the birth of the great religions and the scene of many a dramatic and historic event. Its geographical position has turned it jnto a crossroads of the highest strategic importance. The geography has not changed sins ancient times, but history has moved into a new era.

Land as a source of livelihood has been replaced by science, and the world is no longer linked by land or sea, but by air. Geography plays no roll up high. Not to distances or differences. Today people are connected by a global telecommunication network. The world is divided into those that are linked to it end those that are not.

This trend affects the Middle East as well. Since we crossed into a age of science, wars have become redundant and bloodshed needless. Mostly, however, the real and vital need for human values has not been lost.

The Bible still serves as the major reference book of Western Civilization. I hope the norms and values that came into begin.in the Middle East in times of or forefathers will govern its future, and that conflicts will make way for economic continue to represent a region that is distinguished by its great vision - a region that needs to fashion itself to a new way of life.

This volume is a looking-glass through witch it possible to look into the past - in order to envision the future.