Bible and sword : England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour

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Origins : a fable agreed upon. Search for an ancestor ; The Phoenicians in Albion ; Roman Judaea and Roman Britain -- Apostle to the Britons: Joseph of Arimathea -- "Within thy gates, O Jerusalem": the pilgrim movement -- The Crusades -- The Bible in English -- Merchant adventurers to the Levant -- On the edge of prophecy : Puritan England and the hope of Israel -- Eclipse of the Bible : the reign of Mr. Worldly Wiseman -- The eastern question : clash of empires in Syria -- Lord Shaftesbury's vision : an Anglican Israel -- Palestine in the path of empire -- Enter the Jews : "If I am not for myself, who will be for me?" -- The rush for the Holy Land -- Closing in : Disraeli, Suez, and Cyprus -- The eagles gather : the sultan's dilemma -- Herzl and Chamberlain : the first territorial offer -- Culmination : the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine mandate. Mr. Balfour and Doctor Weizmann ; The Balfour declaration: acetone or conscience? ; In the trap of history: the mandate. -- End of the vision.