Jonathan Immanuel is a fellow of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Jerusalem.

There could not be a better or more authoritative book to emerge in this centenary year of the Balfour Declaration than Jonathan Immanuel’s extraordinarily scholarly yet highly readable analysis of how it came about. Connecting the Bible and Zionism with British thinkers and statesmen stretching back over centuries, Immanuel builds a truly compelling argument about British Zionism, both Jewish and non-Jewish, that will fascinate and convince. Far from being either cynical or miraculous, the genesis of the Declaration was logical and, as Immanuel categorically proves, steeped in the best motives and instincts of Britain’s long history.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart. I The Root of the Matter 1530-1840 1 England's Political Reformation 2 The Rise of the Puritans3 A Jew in Peru 4 “No More Our Ancient Enemy”5 The Hartlib Circle6 Cromwell's Secular Dilemma7 Three wise Machiavellians8 A Complex Messiah9 Deists Assault the Bible10 A Tale of Two Enlightenments11 Science and Restoration in the Age of Reason Part II From Belief to Action 1840-191412 Shaftesbury and Palmerston: "The Time has Come" 13 Two Rabbis and a Socialist Saint14 The View from Afar. America, Australia and Russia 15 Gladstone or Disraeli 16 The Evolution of George Eliot 17 Herzl in Wonderland 18 Science, Faith and Balfour PostscriptBibliographyAbout the Author

Jonathan Immanuel is a fellow of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Jerusalem.

There could not be a better or more authoritative book to emerge in this centenary year of the Balfour Declaration than Jonathan Immanuel’s extraordinarily scholarly yet highly readable analysis of how it came about. Connecting the Bible and Zionism with British thinkers and statesmen stretching back over centuries, Immanuel builds a truly compelling argument about British Zionism, both Jewish and non-Jewish, that will fascinate and convince. Far from being either cynical or miraculous, the genesis of the Declaration was logical and, as Immanuel categorically proves, steeped in the best motives and instincts of Britain’s long history.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart. I The Root of the Matter 1530-1840 1 England's Political Reformation 2 The Rise of the Puritans3 A Jew in Peru 4 “No More Our Ancient Enemy”5 The Hartlib Circle6 Cromwell's Secular Dilemma7 Three wise Machiavellians8 A Complex Messiah9 Deists Assault the Bible10 A Tale of Two Enlightenments11 Science and Restoration in the Age of Reason Part II From Belief to Action 1840-191412 Shaftesbury and Palmerston: "The Time has Come" 13 Two Rabbis and a Socialist Saint14 The View from Afar. America, Australia and Russia 15 Gladstone or Disraeli 16 The Evolution of George Eliot 17 Herzl in Wonderland 18 Science, Faith and Balfour PostscriptBibliographyAbout the Author

Jonathan Immanuel is a fellow of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Jerusalem.

There could not be a better or more authoritative book to emerge in this centenary year of the Balfour Declaration than Jonathan Immanuel’s extraordinarily scholarly yet highly readable analysis of how it came about. Connecting the Bible and Zionism with British thinkers and statesmen stretching back over centuries, Immanuel builds a truly compelling argument about British Zionism, both Jewish and non-Jewish, that will fascinate and convince. Far from being either cynical or miraculous, the genesis of the Declaration was logical and, as Immanuel categorically proves, steeped in the best motives and instincts of Britain’s long history.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart. I The Root of the Matter 1530-1840 1 England's Political Reformation 2 The Rise of the Puritans3 A Jew in Peru 4 “No More Our Ancient Enemy”5 The Hartlib Circle6 Cromwell's Secular Dilemma7 Three wise Machiavellians8 A Complex Messiah9 Deists Assault the Bible10 A Tale of Two Enlightenments11 Science and Restoration in the Age of Reason Part II From Belief to Action 1840-191412 Shaftesbury and Palmerston: "The Time has Come" 13 Two Rabbis and a Socialist Saint14 The View from Afar. America, Australia and Russia 15 Gladstone or Disraeli 16 The Evolution of George Eliot 17 Herzl in Wonderland 18 Science, Faith and Balfour PostscriptBibliographyAbout the Author