Table of Contents:
  • Land of blessing and "blessings of the land" / Lawrence A. Hoffman. pt. 1. The Land of Israel in the Biblical and Hellenistic periods : The Biblical concept of the Land of Israel: cornerstone of the covenant between God and Israel / Harry M. Orlinsky
  • Land theology in Philo and Josephus / Betsy Halpern Amaru. pt. 2. The Land of Israel in the Tannaitic period : The borders of Judaism: the Land of Israel in early rabbinic Judaism / Charles Primus
  • The significance of the Land of Israel in the Mishnah / Richard S. Sarason. pt. 3. The Land of Israel in the medieval period : The link to the Land of Israel in Jewish thought: a clash of perspectives / Shalom Rosenberg
  • The Land of Israel in medieval Kabbalah / Moshe Idel
  • The Land of Israel in pre-modern Jewish thought: a history of two rabbinic statements / Marc Saperstein
  • The Land of Israel in medieval Jewish exegetical and polemical literature / Michael A. Signer
  • Return in mercy to Zion: a messianic dream in Jewish art / Joseph Gutmann. pt. 4. The Land of Israel in the modern period : Off center: the concept of the Land of Israel in modern Jewish thought / Arnold M. Eisen
  • The Jews of North Africa and the Land of Israel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the reversal in attitude toward aliyah (immigration to the land) from 1770 to 1860 / Shalom Bar Asher
  • Contemporary hermeneutics and self-views on the relationship between state and land / Uriel Tal, z"l.