Reviewed by Rebekka King (Middle Tennessee State University). David R. Swartz has invited you to party. At first glance, the party appears to be a disparate group: the well-dressed Republican senator Mark Hatfield is engaged in a deep conversation with scraggly haired Jim Wallis.
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Garbin, “Visibility and Invisibility”
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Durbin, ” ‘I am an Israeli'”
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Cannell, “The Blood of Abraham”
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Elisha, “What has been will be again”
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Mosse, “The Saint in the Banyan Tree”
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