ארץ ישראל במחשבת חז"ל על פי ויליאם ד. דיוויס

William D. Davies, under the influence of Trinitarian ideas in Christianity, posits what he sees as an equivalent idea in Judaism of late antiquity. He claims and argues in favor of an idea that the Sages held a belief that the Land, Israel and God form an essential unity not easily disrupted either by Exile, destruction of the Temple, or any other disturbance. Critics of Davies have noted that the mystical idea of unity has the Torah and not the Land as an indivisible and unalienable component. Among others E. E. Urbach, in his much-maligned but magisterial study of the opinions and beliefs of the Sages, does not have a chapter on the Land as such. Indeed this lack is not some oversight as it allowed him to press a politics of territorial compromise in regard to Israel and its neighbors.