The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Paul Merkley, The Politics Of Christian Zionism, 1891–1948 (London: Frank Cass, 1998). 2. Gershon Gorenberg, The End of Days (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); Yaacov Ariel, Philosemites or Antisemites? Evangelical Christian Attitudes toward Jews, Judaism, and the State of Israel (Jerusalem: Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, 2002); David Brog, Standing with Israel (Lake Mary, FL: Frontline, 2006); Stephen Spector, Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 43–45. 3. Hertzel Fishman, American Protestantism and a Jewish State (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1973); Carl Hermann Voss and David Rausch, “American Christians and Israel, 1948–1988,” American Jewish Archives 40, no. 1 (1988): 41–82; Paul Merkley, Christian Attitudes towards the State of Israel (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2007). 4. Stephen Haynes, Reluctant Witnesses: Jews and the Christian Imagination (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1995), 8. 5. Richard Rubenstein, “Some Reflections on ‘the Odd Couple’: A Reply to Martin Marty,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 44, no. 1 (2009): 136–40; Dexter Van Zile, “Updating the Ancient Infrastructure of Christian Contempt: Sabeel,” Jewish Political Studies Review 23, nos. 1–2 (2011): 1–20; Adam Gregerman, “Old Wine in New Bottles: Liberation Theology and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 41, nos. 3–4 (2004): 313–40. 6. Erik Nelson and Alan Wisdom, Human Rights Advocacy in the Mainline Protestant Churches (2000–2003): A Critical Analysis (Washington DC: Institute on Religion & Democracy, 2004). 7. Rabbis for Human Rights, “Bad Waters: An Open Letter to the Presbyterian Church,” July 26, 2004, available at http://jat-action.org/PCUSA_RabbisHumanRights.htm (accessed July 14, 2009) (emphasis added). 8. Eyal Naveh, “Unconventional ‘Christian Zionist’: The Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and His Attitude toward the Jewish National Movement,” Studies in Zionism 11, no. 2 (1990): 183–96. 9. “Ideological Gaps over Israel on Both Sides of Atlantic,” Jan. 29, 2009, http://www.pewglobal.org/2009/01/29/ideology-and-views-toward-the-middle-east-conflict/; America's Place in the World 2009, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Dec. 2009, http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/569.pdf; “American Evangelicals and Israel: Public Opinion on Religion and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, April 15, 2005, http://pewforum.org/Christian/American-Evangelicals-and-Israel.aspx.