Holy Land Recommended Reading List

This list contains some books that we feel may enhance your understanding of some different aspects of the Holy Land. If you plan to join a pilgrimage, reading one or two would be good preparation for the journey. If you plan to attend one of our courses, we will recommend more titles to go further and deeper.

Karen Armstrong, One City, Three Faiths (Random House 1996)

Naim Ateek, Justice and Only Justice (Orbis 1989)

Kenneth E. Bailey, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes (IVP Academic 2008)

Marcus Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (San Francisco Harper 1994)

Henry Ralph Carse, No-One Land (Ziggurat Books 2010)

Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers (Chosen Books 1994)

Betty Dagher Majaj, A War without Chocolate (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2015)

Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, The Holy Land (Oxford University Press 1980, 2008)

Gerd Theissen, The Shadow of the Galilean (trans. John Bowden; London SCM 1987)

Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree (Bloomsbury NYC 2006)

Peter W. L. Walker, Jesus and the Holy City (Eerdmans 1996)

John Wilkinson (trans.) Jerusalem as Jesus Knew It (Thomas Nelson 1978)