Editing Holy Land (section)

==Christianity==
{{see also|Christian pilgrimage|Travelogues of Palestine|Jerusalem in Christianity|List of Christian holy sites in the Holy Land}}
[[File:Holy sepulchre mass.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|The [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]] is one of the most important [[Christian pilgrimage|pilgrimage]] sites in Christianity, as it is the purported site of Christ's resurrection.]]

For [[Christians]], the Holy Land is considered holy because of its association with the [[Birth of Jesus|birth]], ministry, [[crucifixion]] and [[Death and Resurrection of Jesus|resurrection]] of [[Jesus]], whom Christians regard as the [[Incarnation (Christianity)|incarnation of God]] and the [[Messiah]].

Christian books, including many editions of the Bible, often have maps of the Holy Land (considered to be Galilee, Samaria, and Judea). For instance, the {{lang|la|Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae}} ({{Lit|Travel book through Holy Scripture}}) of Heinrich Bünting (1545–1606), a German Protestant pastor, featured such a map.<ref name=wdl>{{cite web|title=Description of the Holy Land|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2891/|website=[[World Digital Library]]|date=1585|language=de|author1=Bünting, Heinrich}}</ref> His book was very popular, and it provided "the most complete available summary of biblical geography and described the geography of the Holy Land by tracing the travels of major figures from the Old and New testaments."<ref name=wdl/>

As a geographic term, the description "Holy Land" loosely encompasses modern-day [[Israel]], the [[Palestinian territories]], [[Lebanon]], western [[Jordan]] and south-western [[Syria]].