Palestine and Israel

A Concealed History

Meindert Dijkstra, Thomas S. B. Johnston

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781666748789
  9781666748796
• eBook ISBN:
  9781666748802
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

Republished in an English edition as the modern state of Israel prepares to celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2023, this book presents a history of Israel and Palestine up to the foundation of that modern state. Stretching from the thirteenth century BCE until the First World War, it is a concealed history of a mixed multitude of winners and losers living in the same land. It can be read as a regional history of the Southern Levant, written in light of modern historical and archaeological research. But it can also help shed light on the Israeli-Palestinian question. It contributes to a better understanding of why the Palestinians--regardless of where they live--have remained rooted in their patrimony, Palestine, and why they as a people, now as ever, are entitled to a land and state of their own.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface to the English Edition
• Preface
• List of Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: From Peleshet to Palestine
• Chapter 2: Philistines from Caphtor beyond the Sea and Egypt; Israelites from Egypt and the Desert
• Chapter 3: Philistine City States and the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
• Chapter 4: The Provinces of Canaan in the Babylonian and Persian Periods
• Chapter 5: Canaan; a Pawn between the Ptolemies and the Seleucids
• Chapter 6: Dreams of a Great Israel
• Chapter 7: Palestine under Roman Rule and the Family of Herod, King of the Jews
• Chapter 8: From the Death of Jesus to the Destruction of Jerusalem (70 CE)
• Chapter 9: Palestine after the Jewish War until Constantine the Great
• Chapter 10: In the Shadow of Byzantium until the Persian and Arab Conquests
• Chapter 11: Palestine under the Early Islamic Caliphates
• Chapter 12: Palestine in the Early Ottoman and Mamluk Periods (1200–1500 CE)
• Chapter 13: Palestine in the Late Ottoman Period (1500–1800 CE)
• Chapter 14: Demographic Developments in Palestine in the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 15: Epilogue
• Bibliography