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Walker Robins – American Evangelicals and Israel

Contributor(s): Walker Robins
Topics(s): Jewishness / Peoplehood, Middle East, Politics, Religion and State, Society, Zionism and Nationalisms
Date: June 22, 2018

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Essential Readings:

Shalom Goldman, “Introduction: the Two Zionisms,” from Zeal for Zion (UNC, 2014)

Richard Cogley, “The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Restoration of Israel in the “Judeo-centric” Strand of Puritan Millenarianism,” Church History 72, no. 02 (June 2003), 304-332.

Yaakov Ariel, “An Unexpected Alliance: Christian Zionism and its Historical Significance,” Modern Judaism 26, no. 1 (February 2006), 74-100.

Timothy Weber, “American Evangelicals and Israel: A Complicated Alliance,” Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIV: The Protestant-Jewish Conundrum, eds. Frankel and Mendelsohn (2010), 141-157.

Joseph Williams, “The Pentecostalization of Christian Zionism,” Church History 84, no. 1 (March 2015), 159-194. 

Joel Rosenberg, “Evangelical Attitudes Towards Israel: Representative Survey of 2,002 Americans with Evangelical Beliefs,” Lifeway Research (2017).

Dan Hummel, “The New Christian Zionism,” First Things (June, 2017)

 

Recommended Books:

Stephen Spector, Evangelicals and Israel (Oxford, 2008)

Yaakov Ariel, An Unusual Relationship (NYU, 2013)

Shalom Goldman, Zeal for Zion (UNC, 2014)

Robert Smith, More Desired Than Our Owne Salvation (Oxford, 2013)

Timothy Weber, On the Road to Armageddon? (Baker, 2004)

Caitlin Carenen, The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel (NYU, 2012)

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