Mary Habeck is an associate professor of strategic studies in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise include American defense policy; Islamic religion, culture and law; military power and strategy; military history; strategic and security issues; and terrorism.

Richard A. Landes is an associate professor of history at Boston University, specializing in messianic and millennial movements. He was the director of the now inactive Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University.

Barbara Rossing is a professor of New Testament at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She is the author of The Rapture Exposed (Basic Books, 2005), and The Choice Between Two Cities: Whore, Bride, and Empire in the Apocalypse (Trinity Press International, 1999).

Read an April 24, 2013, column on CNN’s website about the Boston marathon bombing and how terrorist acts are quickly and inaccurately categorized as “Muslim extremism.”

Written by Timothy P. Weber (Baker Academic, 2004). Weber investigates the origins, developments and results of the relationship between evangelicals and Israel.

Interview with Southern Baptist leader Richard Land where Land explains the motivation behind evangelical Christian support of Jews and Israel.

2002 Beliefnet article about how hopes for the Second Coming of Jesus encourage evangelical Christian support of Jews and the State of Israel.

Jan. 8, 2006, The Washington Post article about Jewish concerns over the evangelical embrace of Jews and Judaism.

May 30, 2013, American Thinker article analyzing survey results that show declining support for Israel among Democrats and the strongest support for Israel in America coming from evangelical Christian Republicans.