New Introduction xvii Susannah Heschel Jerusalem---a charismatic city You Only See When You Hear 5(4) The Intimation of an Answer 9(5) The Widow is a Bride Again 14(5) The Wall 19(9) City in Trance 28(5) The Challenge 33(10) Engagement to the land To Repudiate the Bible? 43(2) The Bible is Our Destiny 45(2) The Eclipse of the Bible 47(2) Singularity 49(3) The Drama 52(2) Continuously Asserting Our Right 54(4) In Dialogue with the Land 58(2) Memory 60(7) Dwelling in the Land 67(18) Emissaries 85(8) Between hope and distress Hope 93(3) Waiting 96(3) Promise 99(5) Distress 104(5) The Miracle of the Resurrection 109(2) Disaster 111(4) Pioneers 115(4) The Land 119(8) Israel and meaning in history Memory of History 127(4) History is not Consumed 131(3) Living Toward Redemption 134(2) Mount Sinai and Mount Moriah 136(3) The Allegorization of the Bible 139(6) Body and Spirit 145(3) Immediacy of Meaning 148(7) Jews, Christians, Arabs Two Levels of Redemption 155(6) The Christian Approach 161(7) Islam and the Land of Israel 168(5) Arabs and Israel 173(22) A rendezvous with history A Rendezvous with History 195(5) Remember 200(2) A Re - Examination 202(3) A Spiritual Underground 205(3) Gratitude 208(3) A community of Concern 211(2) Peace 213(6) Meaning 219(8) Index 227