Part 1: Pre-Israelite Palestine 1. The land 2. The earliest inhabitants 3. The Semites 4. The Babylonians in Palestine 5. From the Nile to the Jordan 6. The Tell-El-Amarna age Part 2: Palestine, the promised land of the Hebrews 7. The conquest of Canaan and the age of the Judges 8. The Hebrew monarchy 9. Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians 10. Religion and Politics—the house of Ptolemy and Seleucus 11. In the Talons of Rome Part 3: Palestine, the holy land of Christendom 12. Palestine under Roman and Byzantine Emperors (A.D. 70–634) 13. Palestine under the Moslems (A.D. 634–1096) 14. Pilgrimages to the holy land 15. The Cross and the Crescent (A.D. 1096–1517) 16. Four centuries of Turkish Rule (A.D. 1517–1917) 17. Palestine a British Mandatory Country (A.D. 1917– 1930)
Biography
Angelo S. Rappoport
Review of the first publication:
‘Dr Rappoport has succeeded in producing a very comprehensive but at the same time a lucid and interesting volume…’
—A. F. Hattersley, History, Vol. 16, No. 62
