Book Reviews

. Rome's Desert Frontiers from the Air, By David Kennedy and Derrick Riley, University of Texas Press, Austin 1990.

1.Review in The Geographical Review, vol. 28 no. 3 (July 1992), pp. 339-340.

* Hebrew version in: Cathedra 72 (1994) pp. 169-172.

2. The Illustrated Atlas of Jerusalem, by Dan Bahat, Simon and Schuster and Carta, 1989.

Review in: Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 28, no. 4 (1992) pp. 810-812.

3. H. Goren, Go View the Land, Jerusalem 1999, 362 pages, in: Sepharim (Haaretz Literrary Supplememnt) 1999 (Hebrew)

4. Z. B. Begin, As We Do Not See Azeqa, The source of the Lachish Letter, Jerusalem 2000, in: Sepharim (Haaretz Literrary Supplememnt) 2000 (Hebrew)

5. Burke O. Long. Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models and Fantasy Travels, Bloomington: Indiana University press, 2003. xi + 258 pp. AJSR  28:2 (2004), pp. 395-397.

6. H. Goren, Real Catholics and Good Germans, The German Catholics and Palestine, 1839-1910, Jerusalem 2005. 377 pp. Cathedra 125 (2007), pp. 169-171 (Hebrew).

7. Zur Shalev, Sacred Words and Worlds Geography, Religion and Scholarship, 1550-1700, by Zur Shalev, History of Science and Medicine Library, Vol. 21; Scientific and Learned Cultures and their Institutions, Vol. 2, Leiden and London: Brill, 2012, in: Imago Mundi, 64, 2 (2012), pp. 228-229.

8. Hisham Khatib, Jerusalem, Palestine & Jordan: In the Archives of Hisham Khatib, foreword by Sarah Searight. London: Gilgamesh Publishing, 2013, 289 pp. in:  Catedra, 158 (2016), pp. 196- 198 (Hebrew)

9. Unraveling the Truth: Alleged Forgery and the "Oldest Bible", Review of Chanan Tigay, The Lost Book of Moses, New York 2016, in Biblical Arcaeology Review, 42, 5 (2016),  pp. 56-58.

10. Mt. Carmel in the past and present, Review of the Hebrew edition of Von Molinen's book, Jerusalem 2013, Catedra 159 (2016), pp. 194-197 (Hebrew).

11. Review on Yossi Ben Arzi, Rural Jewish settlement in Cyprus, 1883-1939, Ramat-Gan 2015, Zion 82 (2017), pp. 373-375 (Hebrew).

  1. Mapping the Holy Land: the Foundation of a Scientific Cartography in Palestine. By Bruno Schelhaas, Jutta Faehndrich and Haim Goren. Tauris Historical Geography Series 11. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2017. Imago Mundi Vol. 70, Part 2: 255

 

 

 

Invited Presentation in International Conferences

  1. Byzantine Monasteries in Judaean Desert: History, Geography and Architecture, A paper presented at: Monestirs, the XXIII Course on Intervention on Architectural Heritage, Barcelona, December 2000.
  2. Visual Images of Jerusalem through the Ages, A keynote speech at: The 2nd International Meeting “Iconic Worlds … more than what we see” Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva, 22-24 May 2004.
  3. Mapping the Land of the Bible: Jewish Cartography between Tradition and Imitation A paper presented at the 5th Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography (in conjunction with a meeting of the Texas Map Society), 6-7 October 2006, University of Texas at Arlington.