Title Deeds to the Holy Land? (recording of talk)

On March 26th Dr Nicholas Taylor of the School of Divinity, Edinburgh University gave a talk to Kairos Ireland “Title Deeds to the Holy Land?”. We can now provide a recording of this very interesting talk.

For those who would like to dive deeper into some of the topics covered in the talk there is the following reading list:

• Walter Brueggemann, The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith. ii ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002
• Gary M. Burge, Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians are not being told about Israel and the Palestinians. Carlisle: Paternoster, 2003
• Meindert Dijkstra, Palestine and Israel: A Concealed History. Eugene: Pickwick, 2023
• Norman C. Habel, The Land is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995
• Munther Isaac, From Land to Lands, from Eden to the Renewed Earth: A Christ-Centred Biblical Theology of the Promised Land. Carlisle: Langham, 2015
• Munther Isaac, Promised Land or Lands of Promise? Understanding Israel Today in the Light of Christ. Oxford: Regnum, 2025
• Alain Marchadour & David Neuhaus, The Land, the Bible, and History: Toward the Land That I Will Show You. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007
• Nur Masalha, The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archeology and Post-Colonialism in Palestine-Israel. London: Zed, 2007
• Nicholas Taylor, “Christianity, Scripture and the State of Israel”, Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 2.2 (2018) 7-34, online at https://www.scotland.anglican.org/wp-…
• Nicholas Taylor, “Land of Promise? Some Observations and Reflections on the Report from the Anglican Communion Network for Inter Faith Concerns”, Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal 7.2 (2023) 67-178