Rev. Dr. Michael Prior, CM, is Professor of Bible and Theology at St. Mary’s College at the University of Surrey in England, where he is also Senior Research Fellow in Holy Land Studies. He is the editor of Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal and the author of numerous books, including Christians in the Holy Land (1994), Western Scholarship and the History of Palestine (1998), Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Inquiry (1999), Holy Land – Hollow Jubilee: God, Justice and the Palestinians (1999), and They Came and They Saw: Western Christian Experiences of the Holy Land (2000).