Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 published by Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

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. The journal is edited by Nur-eldeen Masalha

Nur-eldeen Masalha

Nur-eldeen Masalha is a Palestinian writer and academic.He is Professor of Religion and Politics and Director of the Centre for Religion and History and the Holy Land Research Project at St. Mary's University College, University of Surrey...

, who co-founded it with Michael Prior

Michael Prior (theologian)

Michael Prior , was a priest of the Vincentian Congregation, professor of biblical theology at Saint Mary's College, University of Surrey, and a liberation theologian...

 in 2002. The journal covers issues that have a contemporary relevance and a wider public interest. It is aimed at an academic and wider public readership and deals with a wide range of topics: ‘two nations’ and ‘three faiths’; conflicting Israeli and Palestinian perspectives; social and economic conditions; Palestine in history and today; ecumenism and interfaith relations; modernisation, religious revivalisms and fundamentalisms; Zionism and Post-Zionism; the 'new historiography' of Israel and Palestine.

External links

• Holy Land Studies at Project Muse
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