Palestine and Israel

“In this welcome book, Meindert Dijkstra has painstakingly traced the long complex demography of the land of promise. By an appeal to historical and archaeological evidence, Dijkstra shows the continued existence of other non-Jewish peoples in the land of promise, including Palestinians. Long habitation in the land is sufficient, in the judgment of this author, to justify a Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state of Israel. This important study requires that we fully face the reality and demand of a people too long neglected in their right to a land of promise.”


—Walter Brueggemann, author of Chosen? Reading the Bible amid the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict





“Historical Palestine was and continues to be a land filled with diversity and beauty, similar to many places around the world. Archeological findings confirm the country as a mixture of cultures, religions, and languages. This book helps the land to share its untold and sometimes unpopular story.”


—Naim Stifan Ateek, author of A Palestinian Theology of Liberation: The Bible, Justice, and the Palestine-Israel Conflict