To understand the transcendent and troubling bond these three faiths feel for the Holy Land today, you need to dig into the past. This course will take you to the formative period of early Jewish and Christian attitudes toward Israel dating back nearly 2,000 years. We will also chronicle the rise of Islam and how its love for the land interacted with the Jewish and Christian communities already present. From there, we'll move to the modern world to see how the rise of the predominantly Christian West and the rebirth of the state of Israel have made this long relationship both more fascinating and frustrating.

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