The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian ConflictThe wrenching situation in the Middle East, recent events have shown, is as complex as it is volatile. In this immensely learned and clarifying volume here updated and issued in paper for the first time the Ruethers trace the tortured and contested history of Israel Palestine from biblical times through the Diaspora, the development of Zionism, the creation of the modern state of Israel, and the subsequent conflict with Arab and Palestinian