"This volume is the result of an academic international conference organized and conducted by Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi (Jerusalem)"--T.p. verso.

"Outgrowth of a conference conducted in May 1999 in Jerusalem"--P. 3.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beginnings of Christianity in the Holy Land / William Horbury -- From oblivion to fame : the history of the Palestinian church (135-303 CE) / Oded Irshai -- "Rejoice Sion, mother of all churches" : Christianity in the Holy Land during the Byzantine era / Lorenzo Perrone -- The Church of Jerusalem and the "Melkites" : the making of an "Arab Orthodox" Christian identity in the world of Islam (750-1050 CE) / Sidney H. Griffith -- Christian communities in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1187 CE) / Johannes Pahlitzsch and Daniel Baraz -- Intellectuals and church fathers in the third and fourth centuries / Christoph Markschies -- Monasticism in the Holy Land / Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Aryeh Kofsky -- Christians and Jews in Byzantine Palestine / Günter Stemberger -- "Holy journey" : pilgrimage and Christian sacred landscape / Ora Limor -- Early Christian churches in the Holy Land / Joseph Patrich -- The monasteries of Palestine in the Byzantine period / Yizhar Hirschfeld - The liturgy of Jerusalem in the Byzantine period / Stéphane Verhelst -- The Holy Land as a factor in Christian art / Bianca Kühnel.