This volume deals with the various ways in which Jews and Christians define their religious identity, people or community, as being holy. This is done throughout history to the present time and in an interdisciplinary perspective. A collection of essays by eminent scholar Gilles Quispel.

Marcel J.H.M. Poorthuis, Ph.D. (1992) in Theology, Catholic Theological University of Utrecht, is Lecturer in Rabbinics and Jewish Christian relations. He has published on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, on Jewish history and on the interaction between Church Fathers and Rabbinics.
Joshua Schwartz, Ph.D. (1981), Jewish History, Hebrew University, is Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies and Director, Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar-Ilan. He has published extensively on the historical geography of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.