Select Bibliography for the Study of Bible Lands

(Print Sources)

Biblical Archaeology

Baretz, Julie. The Bible on Location: Off the Beaten Path in Ancient and Modern Israel.The Jewish Publication Society, 2015.

Currid, John D. Doing Archaeology in the Land of the Bible.

Hoffmeier, James K. The Archaeology of the Bible. Lion Hudson, 2008.

King, Philip, J. and Lawrence E. Stager. Life in Biblical Israel. Westminster John Knox, 2002.

Mazar, Amihai, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000 586 B.C.E. Doubleday, 1990.

Biblical Geography / Atlases

Baly, Denis. The Geography of the Bible. Revised. Harper & Row, 1974.

Beck, John A.  The Land of Milk and Honey: An Introduction to the Geography of Israel. Concordia, 2006.

Rainey, Anson F., and R. Steven Notley. The Sacred Bridge: Carta's Atlas of the Biblical World. Carta, 2005.

Schlegel, William. Satellite Bible Atlas.

Smith, George Adam. The Historical Geography of the Holy Land.

Christian Pilgrimage

Badone, E., and S. Roseman (eds). Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism. University of Illinois, 2004.

Bartholomew, Craig and Fred Hughes (eds). Explorations in a Christian Theology of Pilgrimage. Ashgate, 2004.

Fabri, Felix. The Book of the Wanderings of Brother Felix Fabri. A. Stewart (trans.). Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896.

Hunt, E.D. Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Later Roman Empire A.D. 312-46. Clarendon, 1982.

Kaell, Hillary. Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage. New York University, 2014.

Lane Fox, Robin. Pagans and Christians. Viking/Penguin, 1986.

Markus, R.A. "How on Earth Could Places Become Holy? Origins of the Christian Idea of Holy Places." Journal of Early Christian Studies 2 (3): 257-271.

Peters, F. E. Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of Chronicles, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from the Days of Abraham to the Beginnings of Modern Times. Princeton University, 1985.

Wright, Tom. The Way of the Lord: Christian Pilgrimage Today. Eerdmans, 1999.

Wilken, Robert L. The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought. Yale University, 1992.

Wilkinson, John (ed). Egeria's Travels. SPCK, 1971.

Wilkinson, John (ed). Jerusalem Pilgrimage 1099-1185. Hakluyt Society, 1988.

Wilkinson, John (ed). Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades. Aris and Philips, 1977.

Travel guide to Israel

Dyer, Charles H. and Gregory A. Hatteberg. The Christian Traveler's Guide to the Holy Land. Moody, 2014.

Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome. The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide.

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Awad, Alex. Palestinian Memories. The Story of a Palestinian Mother and Her People. Bethlehem Bible College, 2008.

Brueggemann, Walter. Chosen? Reading the Bible Amid the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Westminster John Knox, 2015.

Chacour, Elias. Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel. Baker, 2003.

Caplan, Neil. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Carter, Jimmy. Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. Sion & Schuster, 2006

Finkelstein, Norman G. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Verso, 1995.